"A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, big or small, young or old. He doesn't care if you're not smart, not popular, not a good joke-teller, not the best athlete, nor the best-looking person. To your dog, you are the greatest, the smartest, the nicest human being who was ever born. You are his friend and protector."

“You can't clobber any reader while he's looking. You divert his attention, then you clobber him and he never knows what hit him.”

“Good and evil, as we term them, are not antagonistic; they are ever found hand in hand. Humanity has never achieved a single conquest without the aid of both. Indeed how can she? What adds to moral strength, but a grappling with temptation?”

“Knowing the Truth is Fairly Useless. Feeling it is Profound. Living it Makes All the Difference.”

Source : David Deida (2009). “Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life & Death and Love & Sex: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.333, ReadHowYouWant.com

“Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.”

“I will say that when I first came out to the States to work on 'Jericho,' that was the only time that I've ever been frightened about a job, because in America they tell stories over such a long time, and I was petrified that I'd get bored.”

Source : "Lennie James on Acting in England and the U.S". Interview with June Thomas, www.slate.com. August 27, 2012.

“We need music to restore the human spirit”

“One of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted to be a secretary of a state who was a woman, but not just chosen for that particular reason.”

“There is nothing more beautiful than a warrior woman standing in her power, courage, and confidence. From this place of strength, she is capable of loving the world in a way that transforms pain into promise…and hell into heaven.”