"As sisters, they probably have closer to 99 percent in common, but they’re not about to recognize that. They’d rather fight over what kind of pet they’re going to get … It’s an argument for its own sake."

“I have no hatred for cops. I have hatred for racists and brutal people, but not necessarily the cops. The cops are just doing what they're told to do.”

“We want for our children, as we want for ourselves, lives at home, at work and at play to be lives of joy and peace.”

Source : Betty Williams' Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1977.

“We may think that our tradition is exactly the same as it has always been, but that is an illusion.”

“My people's greatest need is my personal holiness”

“The major wars that the U.S. became involved in are all ethically defensible.”

Source : "Fact-Checking Liu Xiaobo Critics" by Emily Loftis and Jean Lee, www.motherjones.com. December 22, 2010.

“people like to keep their little secrets to themselves. It's like growing mushrooms in the cellar and running down to take a look at them now and then.”

Source : Marjorie Kellogg (1968). “Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon”

“Syria is lucky to have Bashar al-Assad as her President.”

Source : "George Galloway Is Gruesome, Not Gorgeous" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. September 13, 2005.

“Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. The odors of fruits waft me to my southern home, to my childhood frolics in the peach orchard. Other odors, instantaneous and fleeting, cause my heart to dilate joyously or contract with remembered grief. Even as I think of smells, my nose is full of scents that start awake sweet memories of summers gone and ripening fields far away.”