"If we do our deficit spending on weapons, at least we get weapons. Then if we need weapons, we have them. If we don't need them, no harm is done."

“Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.”

“The fact is, for most of us, what happens to ourselves is so much more important than what happens to other people that the smallest mote in our own eye will prevent us from being unduly harrowed by someone else's beam.”

“I have had fatwas issued against me, some three in Bangladesh and another five in India. I will not be cowed by these threats and shall fight for my rights.”

Source : "Exiled writer says: 'I am dying every day in the west'" by Taslima Nasrin, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2009.

“Setting up absurd worlds with rules to violate - it's one of the things I hope to achieve with my work.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

“The swordswoman and I are not so dissimilar. May my people understand the resemblance soon so that I can return to them. What we have in common are the words at our backs. The idioms for revenge are 'report a crime' and 'report to five families.' The reporting is the vengeance-not the beheading, not the gutting, but the words.”

Source : Maxine Hong Kingston (2010). “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts”, p.62, Vintage

“I'm trying to get some building work done at the moment, quite seriously. Be careful.”

“He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.”

“Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life.”

Source : John Cunningham Geikie (1891). “The Life and Words of Christ”