"Swords can win territories, but not hearts. Forces can bend heads, but not minds."

“Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe, how much it altered her person for the worse.”

“We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear,And that's the burden of a year.”

“In any case, [y]ou can't teach a monkey to speak and you can't teach an Arab to be democratic. You're dealing with a culture of thieves and robbers. Muhammad, their prophet, was a robber and a killer and a liar. The Arab destroys everything he touches.”

“When I was older and I first started working, I was obsessed with buying my first Chanel jacket. I saved up my hard-earned money, went to Barneys, and bought a little black Chanel jacket. It saw many, many job interviews and many, many events. I'm not fitting into it lately, but I still have it.”

Source : "Nina Garcia So Over ‘Angry Shoes,’ Says ‘Polished Girl Is Back’", www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2010.

“Church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact - religion and politics should not be mingled.”

“To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.”

Source : Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.82, Criss Jami

“Maturity is reached the day we don't need to be lied to about anything.”

Source : Frank Yerby (1972). “The girl from Storyville”

“That's the last thing I want to do is go on up there and mess up, you know, in front of America.”