Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.

Be like the bird that, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.

Victor Hugo

Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.

Bob Geldof

Even in India the Hindi film industry might be the best known but there are movies made in other regional languages in India, be it Tamil or Bengali. Those experiences too are different from the ones in Bombay.

Aishwarya Rai

With a group of bankers I always had the feeling that success was measured by the extent one gave nothing away.

Lord Longford

The way to have power is to take it.

Boss Tweed

The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.

Robert Browning

It is my belief that we all have the need to feel special. It is this need that can bring out the best in us, yet the worst in us.

Janet Jackson

A multitude of little superfluous precautions engender here a population of deputies and sub-officials, each of whom acquits himself with an air of importance and a rigorous precision, which seemed to say, though everything is done with much silence, Make way, I am one of the members of the grand machine of state.

Marquis De Custine

The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it.

Michel de Montaigne

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

Albert Einstein

The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced

Albert Einstein

Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.

John Green