'Dreams From My Father' reveals more about Obama than is usually known about political leaders until after they're dead. Perhaps more than it intends, it shows his mind working, in real time, sentence by sentence, in what feels like a private audience with the reader.

My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.

Chris Hayes

The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Pope Paul VI

Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which

Arthur Koestler

But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.

Lafcadio Hearn

The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.

Josephine Baker

'Days' has always been strong as an icon in TV history, and it's still going on strong and represents the genre of daytime drama so well. I'm proud to be a part of it.

Alison Sweeney

I'm not the most romantic guy, although I do try.

Seth Rogen

Ain't nobody making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio, but you should never compromise who you are, your values or your morals.

Talib Kweli

What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved - a system that was created for the days after the Second World War. That prize is now I think achievable.

Iain Duncan Smith

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.

Malcom X

Death is a fearful thing.

William Shakespeare