Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Everyone always did miss everyone else in this war, whenever it was humanly possible to do so.

George Orwell

One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.

David Borenstein, October 26, 19

My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue to write about it.

Jhumpa Lahiri

I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger.

Alan Alda

Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq. We did. I promised to refocus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11. We have. We've blunted the Taliban's momentum in Afghanistan, and in 2014, our longest war will be over. A new tower rises above the New York skyline, al Qaeda is on the path to defeat, and Osama bin Laden is dead.

Barack Obama

The only thing more dangerous then a vampire crazed with blood lust was a vampire crazed with anything else. All the meticulous single-mindedness that went into finding young women who slept with their bedroom window open got channeled into some other interest, with merciless and painstaking efficiency...

Terry Pratchett

When we blame, we give away our power.

Greg Anderson

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

Dalai Lama

And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it's always daisy-time.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.

Napoleon Hill

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

Samuel Johnson

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