Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later for another thing, they die earlier.

Books are the best type of influence of the past...Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In America, the President reigns for four years, and journalism governs for ever and ever.

Oscar Wilde

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Athletes need 'freedom of excess'. That is why we gave them this mottoThis phrase, Citius, Altius, Fortius is the Olympic Motto.

Pierre de Coubertin

Death and life have their determined appointments riches and honors depend upon heaven.

Confucius

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

Mahatma Gandhi

Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.

Ice T

Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish.

Sir Walter Raleigh

Don't just follow your dreams; chase them down, grab hold and don't let go.

Kellie Elmore

I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.

Al Lewis

As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board.

James Bovard

Dad made it to Gold Shield Detective, so he always busted Robin, my oldest brother, and me. Always got caught, whatever we were doing.

Kevin Eubanks