But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.

Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.

Orison Swett Marden

There is no truth. There is only perception.

Gustave Flaubert

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

John Cheever

Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans -- the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum.

Susan Sontag

Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy.

Deepak Chopra

Honestly, woman, you call yourself our mother?

J.K. Rowling

When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and it's a pretty honorable position to be in.

Eric Clapton

Two people can do anything as long as one of them is the Lord.

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He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.

H. G. [Herbert George] Wells

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

Martin Luther King, Jr., The Tru

Love is the wild card of existence.

Rita Mae Brown

Faith lives in honest doubt.

Alfred Lord Tennyson