I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.

We were all born with a certain degree of power. The key to success is discovering this innate power and using it daily to deal with whatever challenges come our way.

Les Brown

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.

Joseph Conrad

When we were at peace, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now there's a war, so Democrats want to raise taxes. When there was a surplus, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now that there is a mild recession, Democrats want to raise taxes.

Ann Coulter

For he being dead, with him is beauty slain, And, beauty dead, black chaos comes again.

SHAKS.: _Venus and A.,_ Line 101

When I looked into her eyes, I saw an invisible spirit of something that I already loved.

Anthony Kiedis

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

Jean-Paul Sartre

If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Now we wake up with our memoryand fix our gazes on that which was;whispering sweetness, which once coursed through us,sits silently beside us with loosened hair

Rainer Maria Rilke

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

Thomas Paine

Think all you speak, but speak not all you think.

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Maturity knows no age. It is a concept that can only become a reality when one completely reliquishes their childhood tendencies and fully embraces the ideals valued by those already matured.

Andy Mastay, (quotation submitte

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

Lao Tzu