"Being someone who prays or fasts doesn't mean you want an Islamic state. Islam in the form of the Iranian state has been defeated in the Arab world. All Islamist movements now want to copy the Turkish model."

“Today, I don't believe in destiny. But I do believe in history...There's nothing more powerful than history...”

“Ain'tno sunshine when she's gone. It's not warm when she's away. Ain'tno sunshine when she's gone, and she's always gone too long, anytime she goes away.”

Source : Song: Ain't No Sunshine

“Not just personal unhappiness but all strife in life, including war, is the result of an over-emphasis on temporary things; money, power and material possession”

“If you believe that health care is a public good to be guaranteed by the state, then a single-payer system is the next best alternative. Unfortunately, it is fiscally unsustainable without rationing.”

“One of the really positive things about minority government is that there is the necessity to broker policy positions. What happens is you get a hybrid of what a single party might do. And I don't think that is a bad thing.”

“Favored stocks underperform the market, while out-of-favor companies outperform the market, but the reappraisal often happens slowly, even glacially.”

Source : David Dreman (2012). “Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Psychological Edge”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

“Writers are too neurotic to ever be happy.”

Source : "Gratitude" by Abigail Bereola, therumpus.net. October 08, 2013.

“Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.”