"Everyone who does the best he can is a hero."

“Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The result is a generation of Syrian Kurds, many now in late middle age, who cant write their own language.”

“To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.”

“All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Solitude is an ocean with wonderful places hidden in its depths.”

“Being feminine in the way you dress doesn't have to compromise who you are as a woman or your career.”

Source : "What A Difference A Day Makes: An Interview With The Suddenly Superfamous Designer Jason Wu". Interview with Lesley M. M. Blume, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2009.

“Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is, and not so much a matter of being real.”

Source : "Famous Actors and Actresses on the American Stage". Book by William C. Young, 1975.

“I read to be alone. I read so as not to be alone.”

Source : Bich Minh Nguyen (2008). “Stealing Buddha's Dinner”, p.92, Penguin

“Civilizations have been founded and maintained on theories which refused to obey facts.”

Source : Joe Orton (2013). “What The Butler Saw”, p.27, A&C Black