"We only have the past that we have. Not all of our deeds were incorrect."

“You can have an elected parliament that makes laws, but if the judiciary is appointed by the Supreme Leader - who is a representative of God - then you're kind of at an impasse.”

Source : "Lipstick Jihad: An Interview With Azadeh Moaveni". Interview with Michal Lumsden, www.motherjones.com. March 9, 2005.

“[Asked, upon the death of her fast friend and sister suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1816-1902), which period of their association she had enjoyed the most:] The days when the struggle was the hardest and the fight the thickest; when the whole world was against us and we had to stand the closer to each other; when I would go to her home and help with the children and the housekeeping through the day and then we would sit up far into the night preparing our ammunition and getting ready to move on the enemy. The years since the rewards began to come have brought no enjoyment like that.”

“Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.”

Source : "The Shack". Book by William P. Young, May, 2007.

“If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.”

“When the fields of human knowledge are so various and so vast as is the case in our day, the utmost that can be done by single minds not of encyclopedic range, is to master one subject or branch of subject as thoroughly as possible, and to rest content with knowing that others are working in regions where neither time nor strength will permit us to enter.”

“Any fool can make soap. It takes a clever man to sell it.”

“I looked at my right hand, the hand with which I painted. There was power in that hand. Power to create and destroy. Power to bring pleasure and pain. Power to amuse and horrify. There was in that hand the demonic and the divine at one and the same time. The demonic and the divine were two aspects of the same force. Creation was demonic and divine. Creativity was demonic and divine. I was demonic and divine.”

Source : Chaim Potok (2009). “My Name Is Asher Lev”, p.382, Anchor

“Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.”