I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a character... This happens to be a feature of my life generally.

America, to me, is freedom.

Willie Nelson

To meet the expectations of the majority of our people, and to open up new vistas of economic opportunity so that the aspirations of Nigerians can stand a fair chance of being fulfilled in a lifetime, there must be a truly committed leadership in a democratic Nigeria.

Ibrahim Babangida

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Plato

I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong.

Charles Kuralt

The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.

Oscar Wilde

The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

looked death in the eye and did not seem disappointed.

Orson Scott Card

Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

Henry Ward Beecher

Everybody except us is running for governor.

Barry Gray

I know I'm not a great singer. But I love to sing and I like to use my voice in different ways.

Melanie Chisholm