Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.

Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you.

Jerry Gillies

Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.

Paulo Coelho

Life had sure been simpler when I hadn't dated.

Charlaine Harris

I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.

William Blake

Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.

Samuel Johnson

Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.

William Allen White

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Benjamin Franklin

If there are amazing graces on this earth, I believe that they are these good children sent to us by God and not yet soiled by the knowledge that their nation does not love them.

Jonathan Kozol

In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Dustin Hoffman

If you cannot make money on one dollar, if you do not coax one dollar to work hard for you, you won't know how to make money out of one hundred thousand dollars.

E. S. Kinnear

We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality.

Elizabeth Gilbert

It's always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you're seeing the most beautiful thing on God's Earth.

Keanu Reeves