"Common sense is no match for the voice of God."

“I wasn't prepared for the fact that grief is so unpredictable. It wasn't just sadness, and it wasn't linear. Somehow I'd thought that the first days would be the worst and then it would get steadily better - like getting over the flu. That's not how it was.”

“Propelled by freedom of faith, gender equality and economic justice for all, India will become a modern nation. Minor blemishes cannot cloak the fact that India is becoming such a modern nation: no faith is in danger in our country, and the continuing commitment to gender equality is one of the great narratives of our times.”

“For some reason, humans have this funny thing about where we came from - it always has far more emotional weight than where we are.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

“Do we play Chicago again? I going to hit Othella Harrington right in the mouth. If he didn't have his clumsy ***** on the floor, I wouldn't have fell. How he got on the ground, I don't know. He's clumsy. Quote me on that. I'm going to get him.”

“The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.”

Source : "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.

“Madonna has total control over her life, and not many women have that”

“The kiss was innocent--innocent enough--but it was also full of something not unlike what Virginia wants from London, from life; it was full of a love complex and ravenous, ancient, neither this nor that. It will serve as this afternoon's manifestation of the central mystery itself, the elusive brightness that shines from the edges of certain dreams; the brightness which, when we awaken, is already fading from our minds, and which we rise in the hope of finding, perhaps today, this new day in which anything might happen, anything at all.”

“We need to do stuff we've always done, even though you might not like it.”

Source : "...and 11 things he wants from you" by Erik Parker, www.glamour.com. September 7, 2008.