"A man may be as straight as an arrow, but even then he will have some critics."

“I wouldn't last 30 minutes climbing solo.”

“What was I supposed to be, growing in your womb -- assuming it was even in our womb that I was conceived? A seed of hope? A ticket purchased to ferry you from the dark? A patch for that hole you carried in your heart? If so, then I wasn't enough. I wasn't nearly enough. I was no balm to your pain, only another dead end, another burden, and you must have seen that early on. You must have realized it. But what could you do? You couldn't go down to the pawnshop and sell me.”

“Man is only truly free only among equally free men.”

“Sleeping we imagine what awake we wish; D ogs dream of bones, and fishermen of fish.”

“See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.”

“Among the songs I love best were those that I see as historically important, which help to change and develop my taste.”

“We do not have the God-given right to shape every nation in our image or as we choose.”

Source : "Rumsfeld Makes McNamara Look Good" by Maureen Dowd, www.realclearpolitics.com. February 13, 2011.

“Lovers cannot imagine any opposition, no matter how small, to the beloved. They cannot endure to see the beloved veiled by something that causes Him to be forgotten. Moreover, lovers regard as futile any speech not about the beloved, and any act not related to Him as ingratitude and disloyalty.”

Source : M. Fethullah Gulen, Ali Unal (2007). “Pearls of Wisdom”, p.22, Tughra Books