"The wars of kings were over; the wars of peoples had begun."

“I went to acting school in New York City for two years. I studied with Stella Adler”

“I want to have thoughts of abundance. I want to have thoughts of love, of kindness, of beauty.”

“Boys are more likely to develop a masculine personality and acquire strong moral standards when they have a loving and nurturant rather than a threatening or fear-inspiring father.”

Source : James Q. Wilson (1997). “The Moral Sense”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

“I must be informed, that one of my great duties was, to obey the priests in all things; and this I soon learnt, to my utter astonishment and horror, was to live in the practice of criminal intercourse with them.”

Source : Maria MONK, William MONK (pseud?.), Rev. J. J. SLOCUM (1837). “Awful Disclosures ... Second edition, revised by the Rev. J. J. Slocum”, p.47

“I've always identified with the misfits”

“There are many things in life that you feel you need such as television, magazines, teachers telling that you have to make money and be successful, but if you have some kind of hope, something to hold onto, then all this will no longer be important. If you can make your next day better than the previous one, then you will see what it really means something to you and not everything that people think you need for your life.”

“Part of the reason you see so little about this in the Western media is that Iraq was closed off from the outside world for so long under Saddam. But I think there's a deeper reason, which is that it messes with our assumptions - not just about Iraq, but about culture and human nature.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

“Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicated?”