The one thing over which you have absolute control is your own thoughts. It is this that puts you in a position to control your own destiny.

Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor.

Terrence Howard

The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.

Ibrahim Babangida

If we confuse dissent with disloyalty

Edward R. Murrow, Ford Fiftieth

Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.

Carolyn G. Heilbrun

He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, him not know t, and he's not robbed at all.

William Shakespeare

The fear you feel is a direct reflection of the perception you have of yourself.

Steve Maraboli

My belief is that no movie, nothing in life, leaves people neutral. You either leave them up or you leave them down.

David Puttnam

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

James F. Byrnes

In the early days of the December that my father was to die, my younger brother brought me the news that I was a Jew. I was then a transplanted Englishman in America, married, with one son and, though unconsoled by any religion, a nonbelieving member of two Christian churches. On hearing the tidings, I was pleased to find that I was pleased.

Christopher Hitchens

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

Leo Tolstoy

I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings.

Daniel Libeskind

One of Dawkins' major gripes is against religion. I am in total agreement on that one. I abhor religion.

Ray Comfort