African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Obama's left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too historic an opportunity to miss.

To give style to one's character -- a great and rare art! He exercises it who surveys all that his nature presents in strength and weakness and then moulds it to an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason, and even the weaknesses delight the eye.

Friedrich Nietzsche

No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.

Archibald Wavell, "London Times"

I've always been a person with patience, and I don't like to force things.

Harry Shum, Jr.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

George Eliot

Taking pre-natal vitamins can minimise birth defects and can lower the chances both of morning sickness and premature delivery.

Heidi Murkoff

To love is to destroy. To be loved is to be the one destroyed.

Cassandra Clare

You've got to work hard for your success and you've got to have a steady presence. That's the secret.

Kid Rock

If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion.

Martin Amis

Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.

Jeff Goodell

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Charles Caleb Colton

It's become another dimension to who I am. I don't think Sports Illustrated is going to be wanting me. But who cares? I'm at a different place in my life.

Cindy Crawford

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

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