"We don't make a distinction between civilians and non-civilians, innocents and non-innocents. Only between Muslims and unbelievers. And the life of an unbeliever has no value. It has no sanctity."

“Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.”

Source : Alphonse de Lamartine (1854). “History of the French Revolution of 1848”, p.19

“Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.”

“My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way.”

“As for me, my charter is Jesus Christ, the inviolable charter is His cross and His death and resurrection, and faith through Him.”

“Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.”

“The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed”

“I don't use the techniques I learned at NYU much anymore.”

“The reason I'm patriotic about Scotland is because I think it's been dealt a really hard hand. It's marketed the world over as . . . haggis . . . bagpipes. But no one ever puts anything back into it.”