Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.
One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero.
Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.
I want to be the first to bless you on what God has blessed you with - fighting in the heart of the Muslim world that was a battleground for large historic Islamic wars and what is now the place of Islam's greatest war in the present era.
The surest way of making a dupe is to let your victim suppose you are his.
Sir, I may not have been always a Christian, but I am very sure that I have been a gentleman.