Sometimes you have to take the focus off of you and put it on someone else and it's funny what you can accomplish and how much strength you really have.

Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.

John Henry Newman

To love is to act.

Victor Hugo

I love Italian food but that's too generic a term for what's available now: you have to narrow it down to Tuscan, Sicilian, and so on.

Lee Child

Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions. When there is no sharing of power, no rule of law, no accountability, there is abuse, corruption, subjugation and indignation.

Atifete Jahjaga

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

Randall Jarrell

If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself, if I'm with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating, all of a sudden you're supposed to have a role. You're not allowed to just be yourself.

Candace Bushnell

Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world.

Bruce Barton

The only thing limiting your aspiration is your imagination.

Stephen Richards

I grew up in musical theatre and love to perform on stage.

A. J. McLean

Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it.

Charles R. Swindoll

Until you have suffered much in your heart, you cannot learn humility.

Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin