You know how when you were a little kid and you believed in fairy tales, that fantasy of what your life would be, white dress, prince charming who would carry you away to a castle on a hill. You would lie in bed at night and close your eyes and you had complete and utter faith. Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, Prince Charming, they were so close you could taste them, but eventually you grow up, one day you open your eyes and the fairy tale disappears. Most people turn to the things and people they can trust. But the thing is its hard to let go of that fairy tale entirely cause almost everyone has that smallest bit of hope, of faith, that one day they will open their eyes and it will come true.

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

Barack Obama

It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.

Ernest Hemingway

We wear on our faces the results of what we believe and how we behave, and such behavior is most evident in the eyes and on the faces of those who have lived many years.

Gordon B. Hinckley

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

Roger Ascham

When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.

Dick Gregory

There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you've been in the business.

Oscar De La Hoya

Its funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than with the artwork itself.

Chuck Palahniuk

Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.

Rita Dove

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

Morgan Freeman

It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.

Terry Pratchett

True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A fast word about oral contraception. I asked a girl to go to bed with me, she said 'no'.

Woody Allen