"The rule should be to minimize the need for people to get together to accomplish anything."

“Temperance is the nurse of chastity.”

Source : William Wycherley, William Congreve, Sir John Vanbrugh, George Farquhar (1871). “The Dramatic Works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar :”, p.20

“Criticism is a surreal state, like a good drug gone bad. When it's bad you wish it would stop, and when it's good, you can't get enough.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I believe that there is a moral and constitutional equivalence between laws designed to subjugate a race and those that distribute benefits on the basis of race in order to foster some current notion of equality.... In my mind, government-sponsored racial discrimination based on benign prejudice is just as noxious as discrimination inspired by malicious prejudice.”

Source : Adarand v. Pena, 515 U.S. 200, 1995.

“Have your boyfriend add therapy bills to my expense tab.”

“All Taliban are moderate. There are two things: extremism ['ifraat,' or doing something to excess] and conservatism ['tafreet,' or doing something insufficiently]. So in that sense, we are all moderates - taking the middle path.”

Source : "Omar: 'Our plan is the destruction of America'". BBC World Service Interview, www.independent.co.uk. November 16, 2001.

“But in Afghanistan, the general rule was that since you were fighting the Taliban, which was not a lawful government force, the Geneva Conventions did not apply. And that led to a lot of excesses in Afghanistan, excesses like Abu Ghraib that were already well-publicized.”

“When I got into the sport I was so fat that my manager said he should send me to boot camp to lose the weight!”

“There is no power in the world like that of women ... this most potent constituency we seek to represent, and for their suffrages we sue.”