I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

Francis Bacon

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

Martin Luther King Jr.

First, I do not think there is any silver bullet to solving the technology side of the security equation.

John W. Thompson

I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics.

Oriana Fallaci

Never step over one duty to perform another.

English Proverb

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Jennie Jerome Churchill

If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to think about wanting to be very rich, but to think about doing something that you really want to do.

Jackie Collins

We all have to leave this world and we don't know when, so make sure you try and live life...now and then!

Timothy Pina

Yet this is a truth people so easily seem to forget and begin to prize local, sectional or provincial interests above and regardless of the national interests. It naturally pains me to find the curse of provincialism holding sway over any section of Pakistan. Pakistan must be rid of this evil.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

Henry Ward Beecher

Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

Rebecca West