"Lebanon is a small country, weak, an army with very humble capabilities."

“People who do not take charge of their lives are lathi-charged by time.”

“We must continue to have voting rights in the state, not to politicize this, but they must have a voice in the rebuilding effort in the community from which they have been displaced.”

“I hope I remember everything," said Toni. "You won't," said Trapp. "That's how you learn. But after you make the same mistake one, or two, or five times, you'll eventually get it. And then you'll make new mistakes.”

“I've been a writer since I was 16. I didn't get published until I was 24. I know that sounds crazy.”

“I’m happy when what I’m doing is helping people and unhappy when what I’m doing isn’t helping people.”

“Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, and you my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling.”

Source : Song: Summerfling

“It may be that the invention of the aeroplane flying-machine will be deemed to have been of less material value to the world than the discovery of Bessemer and open-hearth steel, or the perfection of the telegraph, or the introduction of new and more scientific methods in the management of our great industrial works. To us, however, the conquest of the air, to use a hackneyed phrase, is a technical triumph so dramatic and so amazing that it overshadows in importance every feat that the inventor has accomplished.”

“I went looking for dresses and realized there was a niche I could fill in the wedding dress market.”

Source : "Q&A: Monique Lhuillier on glamour and gowns". Interview with Jeanne Beker, www.thestar.com. June 15, 2012.