The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Man has his will, but woman has her way.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

Dare to feel the joy of life even in the midst of misery.

In early 1970, Newsweek's editors decided that the new women's liberation movement deserved a cover story. There was one problem, however: there were no women to write the piece.

But females in even the most advanced Muslim countries are simply, by law, not the equal of men.

At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.

Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses.

Don't play hard to get, play hard to forget.

In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he must accept upon faith and belief.

You can reach stupidity only with a cannon ball.

It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is never.

Give us the tools, and we will finish the job