Let us refuse to be silent! Speaking freely is a decisive step forward on the road to freedom.

Kurds are like fire, if approached kindly they will warm you, if approached badly they will burn you

Women's fight for equal rights is essentially a humanist and peaceful struggle for true democracy, and a higher form of civilization.

I have defended democracy, human rights, and brotherhood between peoples. And I'll keep doing so for as long as I live.

Sometimes daughter who is loved by her father very much and loving her father very much, she is getting hurt by her lover very much.

Growing up, all I did was play sports. I always loved music, but I never even thought I'd be on stage one day.

I've been getting chatted up by men ever since I was 14.

If you want to feel good, be rational.

Abused prosperity is oftentimes made the very means of our greatest adversity.

That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.

When you make a record, you listen to it literally hundreds of times. When it's done and you can't do anything else, I never listen to my records.

I'd like to think that the notion of inspiration will transcend cultural things that are going on. There's something classic about this movie that I'm hoping reaches kids.

From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad: Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, "An honest man 's the noblest work of God."

...knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity's engine.