The reason people fear to confide in anyone is that even an internal friend can make personal details external, and it will remain eternal.

Being his real brother I could feel I live in his shadows, but I never have and I do not now. I live in his glow.

It's time to demand that the faithful keep their personal choices, preferences and beliefs in irrational and sometimes dangerous things strictly private. Everyone is absolutely free to believe what they want, provided they do not harass others (or force, or kill them) .. But nobody has the right to insist on privileges simply because they are supporters of one or other of the world's many religions.'From: 'Gesels van een imaginaire god'('Scourges of an imaginary god').

Private jets cost a lot of money.

I write for pages,get lost in the mezzaninehidden from stages.

It’s not the public opinion of what you are that matters, but the private personality of who you are!

As a private lawyer, I could bill $750 an hour, but I don't.

In cities where peace and the arts flourish, men are more consumed by jealousy, worry, and anxiety than they are in cities under the blight of a besieging army. Private sorrows are more bitter than public suffering.

Without anarchy, there would be chaos.

It is perhaps because of the Iranian concept of the home and garden (and not the city or town it is in) as the defining center of life that Iranians find living in a society with such stringent rules of public behavior somewhat tolerable. Iranian society by and large cares very little about what goes on in the homes and gardens of private citizens, but the Islamic government cares very much how its citizens behave once they venture outside their walls.