"I believe in freedom, I'm for a world without borders. But that's an ideal. On a practical level, I'm for a secular state where religion only plays a minor role."

“We can't afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past.”

“The problems of rebellious youth can be traced to homes where the mother disobeyed the father or showed lack of respect for his authority.”

Source : Helen Andelin (2013). “Fascinating Womanhood: The Updated Edition of the Classic Bestseller That Shows You How to Strengthen our Marriage and Enrich Your Life”, p.125, Bantam

“Nobody could paint eyes like El Greco and nobody can paint eyes like Walter Keane.”

Source : "The Man Who Paints Those Big Eyes: The Phenomenal Success of Walter Keane" by Jane Howard, Life Magazine ' 59, no. 9, p. 39, August 27, 1965.

“Even when apologising, this guy turns on the charm. And the worst thing is that it works. She had reached a point in her life where she no longer expected anything from men, though that didn't stop her from falling in love with them.”

“My rule has always been, write the next part of the book that you seem to know well. So I won't necessarily write chapter two after chapter one.”

Source : "Inside Justin Cronin's 'The Passage'". Interview with Christian Duchateau, www.cnn.com. May 15, 2011.

“...his lips were pure temptation, soft, bitable, sensual in a way only a man's mouth could be.”

“The advent of self-government for the Iraqi people is a watershed moment in their history.”

“One classical role of the pulpit in Protestantism has been to 'preach sermons' which imply indoctrination more than education. Within this from of communication, there is an inherent, intrinsic inclination to intimidate, manipulate, and, hence, offend the person's most prized quality of humanness - his dignity.”