Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience.

I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand.

Erykah Badu

The great classic writers, it will be said, sought rather to proclaim universal truths than to leave their imprint on them.

Andre Maurois

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

Perché mi hai tradito?

Daniela Barisone

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

Alice Meynell

That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.

Thomas Aquinas

Time should make enemies and Life should make friends.

Henry R. Luce

Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear?

Andrew Greeley

I'd stop anyone from taking that smile from you. I would, if I were allowed.

Melissa Marr

People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals -- that is, goals that do not inspire them.

Anthony Robbins

Here is a pretty good rule of thumb for Democratic Presidents: if it didn't work for Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won four terms and a World War, it probably won't work for you either.

Jon Meacham

Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do.

Ingrid Newkirk