When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.

Ibrahim Babangida

The leverage and influence social media gives citizens are rapidly spreading into the business world.

Simon Mainwaring

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

Norman Vincent Peale

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.

Soren Kierkegaard

I went into journalism because I like to be a translator from English to English.

Thomas Friedman

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

Thomas Jefferson

I'll keep peace at all cost, even if I choke to death on my tongue.

Paula Deen

Watch the History Channel if you want it literal and historically perfect.

Emily Blunt

One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral thing to do, it is not necessarily the most useful thing to do. The Greeks themselves chose the ideal over the real in their geometry and demonstrated very well that far more could be achieved by consideration of abstract line and form than by a study of the real lines and forms of the world; the greater understanding achieved through abstraction could be applied most usefully to the very reality that was ignored in the process of gaining knowledge.

Isaac Asimov

When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is an act of choice and therefore sacred, then life is a sacred dance lived consciously each moment. When we live at this level, we participate in the creation of a better world. The Circle is Sacred

Scout Cloud Lee

The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.

Condoleezza Rice