How many deaf people do you know in real life? Unless they live in a cave, or are 14, which seems to be true for most people in this business, what could I possibly tell them that they don't already know?

I've been doing a lot of drama, but I feel like comedy is my strength.

Taraji P. Henson

My mom always said, 'Don't date a guy who thinks he's prettier than you.'

Alicia Keys

History is the devil's scripture.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.

Martin Luther King Jr.

A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.

Stanley Baldwin

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I think to be - for me to be an American is - you know, it's one of the greatest things in the world for - you know, for me just because I've been able to grow up with everything. The freedom. You know, in my eyes this is the greatest country in the world.

Michael Phelps

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country.

Henry Wotton

I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.

Anne Hathaway

A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation -- a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something.

Samuel Johnson

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

Jim Morrison

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.

George Santayana