The day will come - and it is not far off - when the legacy of Lincoln will finally be fulfilled at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, when a black man or woman will sit in the Oval Office. When that day comes, the most remarkable thing about it will be how naturally it occurs.

When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different places, and set up their administrations, the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt.

Chinua Achebe

The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of time. Our reflexes and our pride transform into a planet the parcel of flesh and consciousness we are.

E. M. Cioran

I don't go to premieres. I don't go to parties. I don't covet the Oscar. I don't want any of that. I don't go out. I just have dinner at home every night with my kids. Being famous, that's a whole other career. And I haven't got any energy for it.

Gary Oldman

By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never.

Miguel de Cervantes

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

Source Unknown

Well I'd certainly hate to interrupt your pleasant night stroll with my sudden death.

Cassandra Clare

What is more important in a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it exists.

Archibald MacLeish, The Premise

If toast always lands butter side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it

Steven Wright

I still don't understand anything- exept that somehow I know that You are love. And that in my heart has been so great a love for Christy as I did not know could exist on this earth. You, God, must be responsible. You must have put it there. So what do I do with it now?

Catherine Marshall

You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

Werner Herzog

There comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. The schoolteacher is well aware of this. And the question is not one of knowing what punishment or reward attends the making of this calculation. The question is that of knowing whether two and two do make four.

Albert Camus

Strong relationships come from well-bonded friendships.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett