"Arabs don't do crime fiction. I read crime fiction and I read Arabic literature, and I wish this was a novel I could have read in Arabic."

“The burden of life is from ourselves, its lightness from the grace of Christ and the love of God.”

Source : William Bernard Ullathorne (1998). “Patience and Humility: A Handbook for Christians”, p.19, Sophia Institute Press

“The world is full of people who want to play it safe, people who have tremendous potential but never use it. Somewhere deep inside them, they know that they could do more in life, be more, and have more -- if only they were willing to take a few risks.”

“There are enough cowards in the world without killing a brave creature for so little reason.”

Source : Brian Jacques (2002). “Mossflower: A Tale from Redwall”, p.23, Penguin

“Women rule the world. It's not really worth fighting because they know what they're doing. Ask Napoleon. Ask Adam. Ask Richard Burton or Richie Sambora. Many a man has crumbled.”

“Believe it or not, when we were first married, our combined monthly student loan bills were actually higher than our mortgage.”

“I feel like Hollywood would rather end the emerging, bottom-up creative culture than let it happen.”

“Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.... During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution.”

“Land Grant College Act is the jewel of Republican reform. It had not occurred to any other country to educate their farmers and workers. When the British studied the reasons for American success in 1851, the consensus was that Americans workers were well educated. So they didn't oppose progress the way British workers did.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz