"I am not saying that the Kurds are angels, but they have suffered too much. These people have a right to live in their country. The right just to be where they are, in freedom. And now the world has started believing in this. Kurdistan is coming. In some five years, I hope, we will have a flag in New York, hanging with all the other flags."

“We have decreased the salaries of everybody who partakes in politics, from the president to the prime minister to the MPs [members of Parliament]. We have cut expenditures that have to do with parliament. Everybody knows we are serious.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com

“He alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving.”

“I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.”

“The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.”

“I don't fall often, but I fall hard. And when you fall hard, it takes a while to get up.”

“Even in the world, the yogi who faithfully discharges his responsibilities, without personal motive or attachment, treads the sure path of enlightenment.”

Source : "Autobiography of a Yogi". Book by Paramahansa Yogananda, 1946.

“The next night, Lincoln parked his Corolla right next to The Courier's front door. I'm here, he thought. Find me. Follow me. Make this inevitable.”

“My lady's presence makes the roses red, because to see her lips they blush for shame.”

Source : Robert Southwell, Henry Constable, William Drummond (1906). “Robert Southwell: Selected Poems; Henry Constable: Pastorals and Sonnets; William Drummond: Songs, Sonnets, Etc”