"The hardest part was convincing people that I was serious. The people were like 'you want to do this again'?"

“We must then build a proper relationship between the richest and the poorest countries based on our desire that they are able to fend for themselves with the investment that is necessary in their agriculture, so that Africa is not a net importer of food, but an exporter of food.”

“The March on Washington affirmed our values as a people: equality and opportunity for all. Forty-one years ago, during a time of segregation, these were an ideal.”

“I'm kind of lazy. I like to lie around with my husband and watch TV and stuff like that.”

“I made a living out of being a class clown”

“Across the board you can run up against 10 athletes where we're the same physically. They've done the same kind of training; they are in the same kind of shape. But the one that wins is the person who really believes they can win.”

“You can't possibly conduct a proper affair without a lot of deliberating, scheming, speculating, and conniving. It's a delicate balance where the excitement must equal the guilt and sex must be as bright as the future you gamble.”

Source : John Dufresne (2008). “Love Warps the Mind a Little: A Novel”, p.6, W. W. Norton & Company

“Beware of suretyship for thy best friend; he that payeth another man's debt seeketh his own decay.”

“I think every child deserves a family as loving and committed as mine. Because the sense of family comes from the commitment we make to each other to work through the hard times so we can enjoy the good ones. It comes from the love that binds us; that's what makes a family. My family is just as real as yours.”

Source : Zach Wahls' Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolin, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.