In everyage and country, the wiser, or at least the stronger, ofthetwosexes, hasusurped thepowers ofthe state, and confined the other to the cares and pleasures of domestic life.

And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Imam Hussain's sacrifice is for all groups and communities, an example of the path of rightousness.

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.

And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. The superstition of the people was not embittered theological rancor.

Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.

In the end, they wanted security more than they wanted freedom.

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.

We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?

For the record, I'm not an indecisive person, and I'm not a coward. I just have a very detailed imaginary life, and it sometimes takes precedence over what's actually happening around me.

If you scratch a great photograph you find two things: a painting and a photograph.

Beloved, can you feel assured that He carried your sin?

There are more important things than money. If I were motivated by money, I could have sold these documents to any number of countries and gotten very rich.

We do not need to prove religion to [people], but to show them that they are religious.

Sects differ more in name than tenets.

But remember, this power of the people on top depends on the obedience of the people below. When people stop obeying, they have no power.

In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships.

["The Sun Also Rises" is about] bullfighting, bullslinging and bullsh[*]t.