The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace.

Eugene Field

I wake up every morning and I surprise myself. I wake up to a new me.

Gina Carano

I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.

Huey Newton

Sorrow makes us children again.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I really am was Bonnie, which is kind of sad when you think how early in my career that was.

Faye Dunaway

I never thought of myself as like, a funny person.

Lena Dunham

Once the visitor was told rather repetitively that this city was the melting pot; never before in history had so many people of such varied languages, customs, colors and culinary habits lived so amicably together. Although New York remains peaceful by most standards, this self-congratulation is now less often heard, since it was discovered some years ago that racial harmony depended unduly on the willingness of the blacks (and latterly the Puerto Ricans) to do for the other races the meanest jobs at the lowest wages and then to return to live by themselves in the worst slums.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Cure the disease and kill the patient.

Francis Bacon

Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.

Ambrose Bierce

When the printing press was developed in the fifteenth century it was said that printed books would make reading and writing the infatuation of people who have no business reading and writing.

James Burke, The Knowledge Web,

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.

William Butler Yeats

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge