I remember watching the Grammys and looking at the performances and crying to my mom, saying how much I wanted to be there.

I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.

Aung San Suu Kyi

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.

Nelson Mandela

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

Aristotle

You'll hate me for the truth before you love me for a lie ... and I wouldn't want it any other way.

Evette Carter

I heard that Jesus had a pet dinosaur. Evolution must be a myth then.

John Bacon

I needed to choose between the one thing that really filled m thoughts-my love for that woman-and losing my freedom and all the choices that the future promised me. To be honest, the decision was easy.-Lukas Jessen-Petersen

Paulo Coelho

It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.

Amy Tan

I want to speak up and tell you that mascara and clothes don't make you cool, neither do name-brand handbags, but being a leader can.

Renee Olstead

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.

Dolly Parton

Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards.

James S. Coleman

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Edward F. Halifax