My parents owned a soul food diner. It inspired me to go to culinary school.

The fact of the matter is that when there are feelings involved and you like someone, it doesn't matter if you're an actor, a teacher, a doctor, a lawyer, a receptionist - you can't really help it when you have feelings for someone.

Jessica Szohr

Throughout my life, my mom has been the person that I've always looked up to.

Mike Krzyzewski

The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. Your have to catch up with it yourself.

Benjamin Franklin

No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses to sing.

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We are not directly involved in Syria. But we will be working with our partners in the European Union and at the United Nations to see if we can persuade the Syrian authorities to go, as I say, more in that direction of respect for democracy and human rights.

William Hague

It was at a conference in Cyprus in 1976, where the theme was the rights of small nations, that I first met Edward Said. It was impossible not to be captivated by him: of his many immediately seductive qualities I will start by mentioning a very important one. When he laughed, it was as if he was surrendering unconditionally to some guilty pleasure. At first the very picture of professorial rectitude, with faultless tweeds, cravats, and other accoutrements (the pipe also being to the fore), he would react to a risqué remark, or a disclosure of something vaguely scandalous, as if a whole Trojan horse of mirth had been smuggled into his interior and suddenly disgorged its contents. The build-up, in other words, was worth one's effort.

Christopher Hitchens

Small things amuse small minds.

Doris Lessing

We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate.

William James

Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.

Mike Murdock

I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.

Jayson Blair

I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that's how I started my career.

Ice Cube

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

William Shakespeare