"I ask especially that no state shall, by law or otherwise, authorize the return of the saloon, either in its old form or in some modern guise."

“We must neither behave as children by resisting honesty, nor allow ourselves to be treated as children by having honesty withheld.”

Source : John H. McWhorter (2000). “Losing the Race: Self-sabotage in Black America”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

“It would have hurt no matter who took you the first time.”

“I was always told I was ugly. I still think I am ugly. I know I've got an odd face and you can't tell me otherwise.”

“Just move to the Internet, its great here. We get to live inside where the weather is always awesome.”

“After much prayer, careful study and reliance on the Holy Spirit, I have concluded this about Christ’s intercession for us. Jesus died on the cross to purchase peace with God for me – and He is in heaven now to maintain that peace, for me and in me.”

“I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech.”

Source : "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.

“I have witnessed things the ancients would have called miracles, but they are not miracles. They are the products of someone's dream, and they happen as the result of hard work.”

“We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were.”

Source : Louis Auchincloss (1984). “The Book Class”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt