“Everything everyone thinks they know about [Mother Teresa] is false. It must be the single most successful emotional con job of the twentieth century.”

“Kind? This is DisCo, not Mother Teresa's home.”

Chetan Bhagat (1974) Indian author, born 1974

“The method of the twentieth century is to use not single but multiple models for experimental exploration – the technique of the suspended judgement.”

Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …

“Commerce is the mother of the arts, the sciences, the professions, and in this twentieth century has itself become an art, a science, a profession.”

Harry Gordon Selfridge (1858–1947) America born English businessman

“The most explosive book of the twentieth century… I'm not kidding, it explodes!!”

David Icke (1952) English writer and public speaker

“For if there is any single thing that everyone hopes for most dearly, it must be this: that the youngest outlive the oldest.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

“Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century.”

Arundhati Roy (1961) Indian novelist, essayist

“The thirteenth century knew more about religion and decoration than the twentieth century will ever learn.”

Henry Adams (1838–1918) journalist, historian, academic, novelist

“the most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.”

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States

“Everyone always talks about how well mothers know their children. No one ever seems to notice how well children know their mothers.”

Lisa Unger book Fragile