I am on my way to Ghana tomorrow morning and you just need to know that this Administration is very focused on doing all we can to promote economic development in this part of the world, in Africa, throughout Africa, North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa.

Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

Thomas Hobbes

I look in your eyes I realize what you've sold me is love in a vacuum. Love in a vacuum.

Aimee Mann

Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read and what I haven't read.

Virginia Woolf

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Jim Rohn

There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to see it. Afterwards the story becomes the book of the living, like a blaring trumpet that raises from the tomb those who have been dust for centuries....

Umberto Eco, Baudolino

Love is like a blanket: it will keep you warm, but it might also suffocate you. Also, it's probably covered with cat hair--love, I mean.

Jarod Kintz

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

Vaclav Havel

Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.

Jonathan Swift

Revolution did not necessarily involve sanguinary strife. It was not a cult of bomb and pistol. They may sometimes be mere means for its achievement.

Bhagat Singh

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere

Ronald Reagan

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.

Soren Kierkegaard