The biggest lesson from Africa was that life's joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not from material things. I saw time and again how much fun Africans had with their families and friends and on the sports fields they laughed all the time.

It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Vince Lombardi

Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.

Peggy Noonan

Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

Octavio Paz

You should treat your thoughts the way you treat yourself, and treat your wishes the way you treat your children.

Leo Tolstoy

I've had a lot of very positive feedback about those stories, and seem to have struck upon something that most people feel. I can also tap dance, and don't know many other authors who can.

Paul Kane

If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.

Christopher Hitchens

Moon! Moon! am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.

Amy Lowell

Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.

Thomas Fuller

Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart.

Gene Tunney

He is beginning to master wisdom when he tries to learn how not to try.

Paul Brunton

The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most urgent necessity in human life is to be able to face life victoriously. For many are living mentally, physically, morally and spiritually defeated.

F. A. Wickett