Well, I think by any expectation South Africa has come a tremendously long way. We've seen a society that many people thought couldn't withstand a peaceful transition to democracy without a great deal of violence, in fact, make that transition and do it in relative peace and security.

He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monumental littleness.

Theodore Roosevelt

The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human.

Elizabeth Edwards

You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.

Eldridge Cleaver

Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.

Neal Boortz

love is a hawk with velvet clawslove is a rock with heart and veinslove is a lion with satin jawslove is a storm with silken reins

Kurt Vonnegut

Promote yourself but do not demote another.

Israel Salanter

Scandal is what one half of the world takes pleasure inventing, and the other half in believing.

Paul Chatfield

It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long ago.

Eugenie Clark

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

Elizabeth Gaskell

Meredith is a prose Browning, and so is Browning. He used poetry as a medium for writing in prose.

Oscar Wilde

The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

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It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

George Washington