The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.

A lie, when believed, became the truth.

Michelle M. Pillow

There's an ethic that says: 'You don't run off to the church for the sacraments of salvation, you establish a personal relationship with God. You don't run off to the courts for justice, you settle it yourself. You don't run off to labor unions to sort out your work relations, you can take this job and shove it if you don't like what you're doing.'

John Shelton Reed

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

Margot Fonteyn

A specialist is a person who fears the other subjects.

Martin H. Fisher

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.

Indira Gandhi

I'm looking forward to influencing others in a positive way. My message is you can do anything if you just put your mind to it.

Justin Bieber

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

Philip Johnson

Many are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the time of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the disappointed, the spring-tide of their hopes.

Caleb Bingham

To keep your secret is wisdom, but to expect others to keep it is folly.

Samuel Johnson

Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.

Irene Peter

Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication and courage. But if we don't practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us - and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along.

Carl Sagan

When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.

Gracie Allen