"Whether the proposed constitution is approved or rejected . . . it is a process and a text largely crafted and imposed by U.S. occupation authorities and their Iraqi dependents, and thus lacking in legal or political legitimacy."

“Don't be someone that searches, finds and then runs away.”

“I've always believed human blood is red because it really needs to draw attention to itself.”

“When you don't understand, it's sometimes easier to look like you do.”

“But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Checker-board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.”

“On my visits to America, I discovered that the old Marxist dictum, "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs," was probably more in force in America-that holy of holies of capitalism-than in any other country in the world.”

Source : Critique of the Gotha Program pt. 1 (1875).

“Happy are they who freely mingle prayer and toil till God responds to the one and rewards the other.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 468, 1895.

“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.”

“I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul.”

Source : Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.24, Simon and Schuster