I define friendship as a bond that transcends all barriers. When you are ready to expect anything and everything from friends, good, bad or ugly... that's what I call true friendship.

I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.

Sade Adu

My mom died when I was 8.

Lisa Guerrero

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

Charles de Montesquieu

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon.

George Aiken

We have always had gross humor. But we try for funny, not gross.

Shawn Wayans

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Franz Kafka

My focus as part of the leadership is to keep talking about the independent voters, independent voters - how do we get the independent voters back?

Henry Cuellar

Somehow difficulties are easier to endure when you know your dream is waiting for you at the end.

Lisa Mangum

I respect the Hall of Fame, and if they think that I'm worthy enough, I would be very honored. And if they don't, I gave it all that I had to this game.

Rafael Palmeiro

In the ashes of adversity, lies opportunity.

S.L. Coelho

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.

Marcel Proust

Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.

Ralph Waldo Emerson