"Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne."

“America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge - to determine what are the accepted facts - wield the greatest social and political power.”

“Ask yourself this: How much deprivation, how much self-effacement must you suffer through before you act on your desire for meaning and fulfillment? Before it’s your turn to thrive in your life, instead of barely surviving it? Some people live their dreams. Why not you?”

“When war becomes a trade, it benefits, like all other trades, from the division of labour.”

“In Iran's future Islamic system everyone can express their opinion, and the Islamic government will respond to logic with logic.”

Source : Ruhollah Khomeini's speech on November 9, 1978, as quoted in "The Most Truthful Individual in Recent History" in "Iranshenasi", Volume XIV, No. 4, as translated by Farhad Mafie, Winter 2003.

“I wanted to go into art history. Acting fell into my lap when a neighbor took pictures of me and showed them to an agent.”

“Writers are always anxious, always on the run--from the telephone, from responsibilities, from the distractions of the world.”

“Loyalty to the school to which your parents pay to send you seemed to me like feeling loyalty to Selfridges.”

Source : John Mortimer (2010). “CLINGING TO THE WRECKAGE”, p.40, Penguin UK

“Where there is a rotten root, there will always be rotten fruit. We must be rooted in Jesus Christ.”