"Tehran believes it's none of our business or anybody else's to decide the future of personalities in other countries."

“My messaging is not just to empower women, it's actually more directed at men because I think it's important for the men on college campuses to hear a women's perspective on how you shouldn't behave in the workplace.”

Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com

“Depression is a prison to which you have the key except you never think to look for it.”

Source : Kevin Hearne (2013). “Hunted: The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Six”, p.90, Del Rey

“By definition, a hearing is an inquiry into many sides of an issue with testimony from various points of views. But mark this: The Republicans did not have a single woman to testify in support of the contraception mandate. That is not a hearing; that is a sham.”

Source : "Don't threaten women's health care" By Felicity Huffman, www.cnn.com. February 29, 2012.

“The intimate and meditative form that Plutarch became known for was completely new in his day.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

“I'm gonna take you to the bank, Senator Trent. To the blood bank!”

“Idleness is paralysis.”

“It is a skill we learn early, the art of inventing stories to explain away the fearful scared strangeness of the world. Storytelling and make-believe, like war and agriculture, are among the arts of self-defense, and all of them are ways of enclosing otherness and claiming ownership.”

Source : William Kittredge (2002). “Owning It All: Essays”, Graywolf Pr

“The artist must forget the audience, forget the critics, forget the technique, forget everything but love for the music. Then, the music speaks through the performance, and the performer and the listener will walk together with the soul of the composer, and with God.”