Looking back at my life's voyage, I can only say that it has been a golden trip.

The greatest threat to our Constitution is our own ignorance of it.

Jacob F. Roecker

I learned that leadership is about falling in love with the people and the people falling in love with you. It is about serving the people with selflessness, with sacrifice, and with the need to put the common good ahead of personal interests.

Joyce Banda

African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.

Mos Def

Unified thinking without borders in apparent dimensions can only be strengthened when focused collectively 'internally'.

AainaA-Ridtz A R

The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.

Albert Einstein

It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous.

Ian Mckellen

Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Teach us to care and not to care. Teach us to sit still.

George Eliot

He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.

Elizabeth Gaskell

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.

Lorraine Hansberry

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

Alphonse de Lamartine