I was born when he kissed me, I died when he left me, I lived a few weeks while he loved me

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Everything negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.

Kobe Bryant

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Joseph Joubert

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language.

Edward Gibbon

The dirty truth is that many people find fascism to be not particularly horrible.

Michael Parenti

No girl who is going to marry need bother to win a college degree; she just naturally becomes a Master of Arts and a Doctor of Philosophy after catering to an ordinary man for a few years.

Helen Rowland

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

Colin Powell

There are so many things to talk about between black people, Hispanic people, white people, gay people, men, women, it's all based on fear. We all have fears, this thing that stops us from embracing as we are one. We are never going to be one. People are messed up, but humor lets us see how ignorant we can be.

Marlon Wayans

In this single galaxy of ours there are eighty-seven thousand million suns. [...] In challenging it, you would be like ants attempting to label and classify all the grains of sand in all the deserts of the world. [...] It is a bitter thought, but you must face it. The planets you may one day possess. But the stars are not for man.

Arthur C. Clarke

You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.

Mark Twain

I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.

Ron Paul