The paper tiger hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant image of themselves, is saying what many whites want desperately to hear reaffirmed: I am still the White Man, lord of the land, licensed to kill, and the world is still an empire at my feet.

so familiar that you slide back to the place where you fit.

Jodi Picoult

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

Source Unknown

When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

Voltaire

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

John Kenneth Galbraith

When you are in a room with Kurtis, whether its one or a hundred he is the only person that matters.

Dee Remy

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

Joseph Roux

Kind words may be short... but their echoes are endless.

Mother Theresa

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.

Flavor Flav

I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.

Maria Callas

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White

I have a great relationship with animals, and with children. I get to their level. I try to see the way a child looks at the world, it's hugely different.

Story Musgrave