The tragedy of Karbala decided not only the fate of the Caliphate, but also of Mohammadan kingdoms long after the Caliphate had waned and disappeared.

The sword of Mahomet, and the Coran, are the most stubborn enemies of Civilisation, Liberty, and Truth, which the world has yet known.

God arranges everything for us, so that we need have no more fear or trouble and may be quite sure that all things will come right in the end.

Nothing's perfect, the world's not perfect, but it's there for us, trying the best it can. That's what makes it so damn beautiful.

Then you go ahead and cry, " Will said. That ended my weeping. Had he asked me not to cry, I would have not been able to stop, but his permission somehow quite my tears.

A hero is a person who, without a second thought, simply does the right thing because his conscience cannot live with any other choice.

I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.

You have to track every single thing you eat if you want to keep posting big numbers on the scale each week.

The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.

Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.

Earth's noblest thing,-a woman perfected.

The supreme guide in life is knowledge.