"No. Please do not name either child after me, Elayne. Let them live their own lives. My shadow will be long enough as it is.' -Rand"

“I was born and raised a Christian and I still adhere to those principles.”

Source : Dee Snider (2013). “Shut Up and Give Me the Mic”, p.341, Simon and Schuster

“I am trying to come up with some "adult" reads, but I mostly read young adult fiction (my job), which, by the way is excellent. I will post about some of my favorites that should appeal to adult readers”

“The plan was always to come to America, because Pakistan's a scary place. They don't have religious freedom. It's very poor, and there's a lot of violence and corruption.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

“Developing a Christian worldview means submitting our entire self to God, in an act of devotion and service to Him.”

“The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period of crisis, the rules of sexual decorum were suspended due to emergency.”

Source : Gail Collins (2009). “America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines”, p.9, Harper Collins

“The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues.”

“Go out into the world where your heart calls you. The blessings will come, I promise you that. I wish for you the insight to recognize the blessings as such, and sometimes it's hard. But you'll know it's a blessing if you are enriched and transformed by the experience. So be ready. There are great souls and teachers everywhere. It's your job to recognize them.”

“It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man.”