Serve God, love me, and mend.:

Religion was used as an ideology, as a system of control. When they forced the veil upon women, they were using it as an instrument of control in the same way that in Mao's China people were wearing Mao jackets and women were not supposed to wear any makeup.

Azar Nafisi

As a mom, I always feel I have to protect them. I talk about them because they are the most important things in my life but they are private people. I won't use them for my own press.

Jami Gertz

We're starting to push the envelope in terms of the expectations, and you can also have your own style, personality and sense of humor, because now we're allowed to.

Lisa Guerrero

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.

Saint Francis of Assisi

Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.

Jules Renard

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

Plato

This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption.

Jim Hightower

Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

I dyed my hair blonde when I was 14. My mom was not happy. But I love being blonde.

Rita Ora

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

Daniel Barenboim

The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.

Bruno Bettelheim

Nazi Germany was so destructive to Judaism not only for the loss of life, but because many who survived began to see the practice of Judaism as somewhat of a health hazard.

Jon Stewart