"Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be."

“When one would make a surprise attack on the enemy, he should avoid the major roads and seek out the lesser ones. Then attack.”

“You can't ride the Tour de France on mineral water.”

“It is true that the welfare-statists are not socialists, that they never advocated or intended the socialization of private property, that they want to 'preserve' private property-with government control of its use and disposal. But that is the fundamental characteristic of fascism.”

“A woman with a mother heart has a testimony of the restored gospel, and she teaches the principles of the gospel without equivocation. She is keeping sacred covenants made in holy temples. Her talents and skills are shared unselfishly. She gains as much education as her circumstances will allow, improving her mind and spirit with the desire to teach what she learns to the generations who follow her.”

“There never was a winner, who wasn't a beginner.”

“Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive.”

Source : "Kemalism, Laicism and Democracy". Book by Ahmet Taner Kışlalı, 1994.

“There is Peter Graf, Steffi's father, with his head on his chin.”

“No matter what happens, I feel very good about the future.”

Source : "Chen Guangcheng says he fears reprisals against his family" by Tania Branigan, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2012.