Empowerment is the magic wand that turns a frog into a prince. Never estimate the power of the people, through true empowerment great leaders are born.

Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior.

Henry Ossawa Tanner

Cited in Fundamentals of Political Science

Leonid Brezhnev

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

William James

Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one's willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not to say that one must live alone, obsessively.

Joyce Carol Oates

To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.

Barbra Streisand

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

Stephen Leacock

Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Quick, someone's coming! Look real!

Terry Pratchett

I hate it when my leg falls asleep. I know that means it's going to be up all night.

Steven Wright

I cannot choose but adhere to the word of God, which has possession of my conscience; nor can I possibly, nor will I even make any recantation, since it is neither safe nor honest to act contrary to conscience! Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, so help me God! Amen.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.

John Templeton