The real estate agent had to go door-to-door in the apartment building we wanted to rent, asking if it was OK for this interracial family - my mom is white and I was a 1-year-old half-African kid - to live in the apartment building.

This comes from dangling from the ceiling

Michelangelo Buonarroti, Sonnet

No love-story has ever been told twice. I never heard any tale of lovers that did not seem to me as new as the world on its first morning.

Eleanor Farjeon

The only consistent hobby I've had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world. I love sports but usually I'm looking for the next job.

William Sanderson

Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.

Annie Lennox

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Friedrich von Schiller

As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.

Sam Waterston

When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.

Robert A. Heinlein

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

Anatole France

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before

Jane Austen

Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.

Eric Hoffer

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

George Bernard Shaw

Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.

Ernest Istook