If you have spent any time with Barack Obama, you know he's a funny guy. He's a good guy. He knows sports.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

Benjamin Disraeli

Jesus gives his life for the congregation, not the other way around.

Rob Walton

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.

Sir Roger L'Estrange

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

Warren Buffett

A man with a beard was always a little suspect anyway. You couldn't say you wore a beard because you liked a beard. People didn't like you for telling the truth. You had to say you had a scar so you couldn't shave.

John Steinbeck

The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact. He calls his employment by its lowest name, and so takes from evil tongues their sharpest weapon. His conversation clings to the weather and the news, yet he allows himself to be surprised into thought, and the unlocking of his learning and philosophy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A society that has made nostalgia a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.

Christopher Lasch

Your inner strength is your outer foundation

Allan Rufus

We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours.

George Eliot

If life deals you lemons made lemonade

Proverb

I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.

Arthur Rimbaud

Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think that's the beauty of art: to question and to ask, to understand the deeper meaning after two or three or four listenings.

Janelle Monae