See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse therefore choose life.

O black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire? How, in your darkness, did you come to know The power and beauty of the minstrels' lyre?

James Weldon Johnson

Luck is a very good word if you put a P before it.

Source Unknown

The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as the mere instruments of power and ambition, is without a doubt the consequence of the decay of the belief in man as something more than an animal animated by highly conditioned reflexes and chemical reactions. For, unless man is something more than that, he has no rights that anyone is bound to respect, and there are no limitations upon his conduct which he is bound to obey.

Walter Lippmann

When I wasn't famous, I had a lot of friends, almost all of them Italian. The racism only started when I started to play football.

Mario Balotelli

You know what makes me feel old? When I see girls who are 20-something, or the new crop of actresses, and think, Aren't we kind of the same age?

Jennifer Aniston

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

Ralph Nader

No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.

Cesare Pavese

I'm proud that today, at 43 years old, I've come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty.

Carre Otis

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

Gwendolyn Brooks

Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.

J. C. Watts

I go jogging for 25 minutes every morning, even if I'm away from home.

Pierre Dukan

For one moment seek a lesser beauty and a lesser grace, but you will find no peace in the end save in her presence.

H.D.