'Rights' are granted; 'duties' are enforced. To speak of rights and duties is to think in terms of authority.

Governments and the military purport to protect the public from enemies, and if there were no enemies they would have to invent some, for the simple purpose of rationalizing their existence.

A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.

India and Japan should develop a complementary relationship in information technology.

You may be sorry that you spoke, sorry you stayed or went, sorry you won or lost, sorry so much was spent. But as you go through life, you'll find - you're never sorry you were kind.

My children are the focal point of my life. I was asking for a little more time to spend with them.

I need to live my life in the light of their deaths. I need to live.

Safety concerns are reasonable. Banning refugees is certainly not.

We expect a great man to be a good reader.

I'm just one of the kids, and all because the students at Hamilton Heights High School listened to the facts, educated their parents and themselves, and believed in me.

The people are starving. They need food; they need medicine; they need education. They do not need a skyscraper to house the ruling party and a 24-hour TV station.

If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.