Storytellers seldom let facts get in the way of perpetuating a legend, although a few facts add seasoning and make the legend more believable.

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

Source Unknown

Somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the food you eat has been touched by immigrant hands, and it is fair to say some of them are not here as they should be here. But if you didn't have these folks, you would be spending a lot more - three, four or five times more - for food, or we would have to import food and have all the food security risks.

Tom Vilsack

A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy.

Marian Anderson

Love never offers to anyone wings so easy that he does not hold him back with his other hand.

Sextus Propertius

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

Joseph Addison

I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.

Curtis Carlson

It is in this darkness that I have found all light somehow become so bright, a shooting star on a stormy night.

Coco J. Ginger

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Edward George BulwerLytton

It's a funny thing: You want so badly for people to see what you do - you're proud of it - and I like the effect that movies have on people. But the attention can also make me uncomfortable.

Kristen Stewart

A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

Mark Twain

'I Know You Care' is really personal and fragile for me. For me, it's about losing a family member and also about a breakup. It's about this idea of losing someone for good.

Ellie Goulding

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Muhammad Ali