The fabric of North Carolina and what makes our state so special is our families and our common desire for a brighter future for our children. No matter what your family looks like, we all want the same thing for our families - happiness, health, prosperity, a bright future for our children and grandchildren.

My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents... They treated us like adults.

Henry Louis Gates

To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings.

Mary Baker Eddy

It has been my experience that the better a man you are, the more folks there are who resent you for it, and find occasion to get angry at you no matter how kindly meant your deeds may be.

Orson Scott Card

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

Satchel Paige

The meaning of religious truth is hope

Andrei Tarkovsky

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

Karl Marx

One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.

Dustin Hoffman

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Chanakya

Health care costs are eating the Defense Department alive.

Robert M. Gates

All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one...

Stephen King

For me, journalism has been more a matter of projecting a particular approach to covering policies, to covering issues. It was a continuation of what I tried to do in government.

Eliot Spitzer

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

C.S. Lewis