"Minds are like oysters. They spoil if you pry them open."

“I prefer to stay in my country. But this doesn't mean if someone does want to leave Iran, I think they've done something wrong - the desire to leave is completely understandable.”

“If my boyfriend finds me sexy, then I don't need that kind of male attention from anyone else.”

Source : "Women of Britain - your designers need you!" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2009.

“Why?' is the prophetic question.”

“People need to understand that in Washington, the process is the punishment.”

“In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.”

“Other than sports, only war and catastrophe can create this sort of national unity.”

“The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.”

“It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.”