I'm proud to be an American. I'm proud to be an African American in America. I've had some interesting experiences: some great, some not so great, but I love it here.

In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest.

Livy

May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

Neil Gaiman

Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.

Henry James

The car business is a lot like football. In football, you have to win once a week. In the car business, you have to win every day.

Tom Dempsey

Sunday school don't make you cool forever.

Sly Stone

As a kid, you see something that you know in your heart is true. Its such a huge hypocrisy that it makes you think, Well, if this is a truth that I know about thats not officially accepted, at least in this country, then how many other truths are there that are under the surface that need to come out?

Serj Tankian

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates, and men decay.

Oliver Goldsmith

I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.

Barack Obama

Never underestimate spite as a motivator for genius.

Sam Kean

If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end.

Julius Erving

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Viktor E. Frankl

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry