Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.

Some people talk of Africa being a continent cursed not blessed with minerals, but the real curse is the leaders and politicians of Africa

Peter Mutanda

Whatever I do, I hope it's quality, I hope it's something that's class.

Garth Brooks

For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dorothy Dix

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Simone Weil

The truth will set you free. Unless you're guilty.

Keith Ablow

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

William Shakespeare

Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.

Alexis Carrel

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

Izaak Walton

Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.

Tom Kite

Remember that you are an actor in a drama, of such a part as it may please the master to assign you, for a long time or for a little as he may choose. And if he will you to take the part of a poor man, or a cripple, or a ruler, or a private citizen, then may you act that part with grace! For to act well the part that is allotted to us, that indeed is ours to do, but to choose it is another's.

Epictetus

I'd seen glimpses of a different me. It was a different me because in those increments of time I thought I actually became a winner.The truth, however, is painful.It was a truth that told me with a scratching internal brutality that I was me, and that winning wan't natural for me. It had to be fought for, in the echoes and trodden footprints of my mind. In a way, I had to scavenge for moments of alrightness.

Markus Zusak

Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

Francis Wright