Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity

Martin Luther King Jr.

After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.

Nancy Grace

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

Ernest Hemingway

Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.

Shahrukh Khan

All my favorite stars, my family and my friends are here. I'm having the happiest birthday that an 18-year-old girl could ever have.

Brandy Norwood

Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, - these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us

Thomas Jefferson

Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.

Elizabeth Bowen

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

Rene Magritte

The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages, was not suddenly abolished in modern times.

James Buchan

It's getting so that children have to be educated to realize that Damn and Taxes: are two separate words.

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Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

John Foster Dulles