Voltaire Quote

Your personal truth is your gift to the world.

At the beginning, I thought the best Islamic work was in Spain - the mosque in Cordoba, the Alhambra in Granada. But as I learned more, my ideas shifted. I traveled to Egypt, and to the Middle East ma...

My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...

The single greatest cause of happiness is gratitude.

One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.

In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators.

I would have followed you to hell and back... if only you'd lead me back.

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

The humanitarian philosophies that have been developed (sometimes under some religious banner and invariably in the face of religious opposition) are human inventions, as the name implies - and our sp...

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.