Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't come into consciousness of this tragedy, there's going to be a violent awakening we don't want. The question is, can we wake up?

The more you believe, the more you doubt. The more you doubt, the more you ask questions. Knowing that questions left unanswered is the best proof for your belief.

Sandra Chami Kassis

Writing is a form of therapy sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

Graham Greene

Laughter, Susannah would later reflect, is like a hurricane: once it reaches a certain point, it becomes self-feeding, self-supporting. You laugh not because the are funny but because your own is funny.

Stephen King

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Tacitus

Since September 11th Congress has created the Department of Homeland Security, more than doubled the homeland security budget and implemented a bipartisan overhaul of our intelligence systems.

Doc Hastings

To lie is so vile, that even if it were in speaking well of godly things it would take off something from God's grace; and Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.

Leonardo da Vinci

Valor consists in the power of self recovery.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.

Billy Strayhorn

My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.

Joseph Barbera

I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.

Nadia Comaneci

I don't want a huge wedding. I don't want it to be some huge spectacle.

Kristin Cavallari

It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.

Nicolas Caussin