"Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates."

“Allah made the faith for you as a purity from polytheism (and unbelief).”

Source : "Ayan al-Shī'ah" by al-Sayyid Muhsin al-Amin, vol.1, p. 316,

“I wouldn't mind being a lord.”

“As weird as it might seem to some people, there is nothing I love more than an empty house and the sound of silence.”

“O my brother Futurists ! All of you, look at yourselves!.. ..In the name of that Human Pride we so adore, I proclaim that the hour is nigh when men with broad temples and steel chins will give birth magnificently, with a single trust of their bulging will, to giants with flawless gestures.”

Source : "Mafarka il Futurista". Book by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. Preface, 1909.

“What it comes down to is intense desire. To get this winning edge, you need to build an indomitable will. This means you must be relentless; you must never give up.”

“One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.”

Source : "To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue" edited by Ellen Land-Weber, Part I, Holland, Ch. 1, (p. 50), 2000.

“Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.”

“I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist, then one that works on your feet, your leg. But I believe George Benson is the one that plays all over. To me, he would be the M.D. of them all.”