Education remains one of the black community's most enduring values. It is sustained by the belief that freedom and education go hand in hand, that learning and training are essential to economic quality and independence.

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

Carl Sandburg

The key to making money is to stay invested.

Suze Orman

I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of positive feedback.

Kevin J. Anderson

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

J. August Strindberg

Ben Says: Make up your mind

Timothy Pina

And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age.

Lisa See

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I pay the schoolmaster, but it is the school boys who educate my son.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I like science fiction and physics, things like that. Planets being sucked into black holes, and the various vortexes that create possibility, and what happens on the other side of the black hole. To me it's the microcosmic study of the macrocosmic universe in man, and that's why I'm attracted to it.

Wesley Snipes

War is just when it is necessary arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

Niccolo Machiavelli

I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors.

Robert W. Service

God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.

Izaak Walton