I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.

The most prepared are the most dedicated.

Raymond Berry

When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.

Mae West

Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.

Vaclav Havel

The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.

Basil Bunting

And then, just as quickly, the clouds returned, leaving us to walk by faith, not by sight.

Sibella Giorello

Golf is typical capitalist lunacy.

George Bernard Shaw

I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food.

Michael Stipe

Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

Terry Pratchett

The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul. Proverbs 13:19

Bible

The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure, and surrounding it, like an embrace, was a general elation--it might hurt, it was horribly inconvenient, no good might come of it, but he had found out for himself what it was to be in love, and it thrilled him.

Ian Mcewan

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

As we celebrate Women's History Month this March, it's important to remember the key role women have played in promoting a better understanding and relationships between our country and the rest of the world.

Elaine Chao