"I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have."

“Small towns harbor small imaginations.”

“The diiference is that in the private sector you work for yourself, and as Prime Minister I work for every single Haitian - inside Haiti and outside - and for all those who love Haiti as well.”

Source : "Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe of Haiti: 'We don’t want to be known as an NGO nation'". Interview with Elisabeth Braw, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2013.

“I felt sick. Buying Kisten’s and my safety from Piscary was so wrong. But it was either that or deal with a demon, and I’d rather keep my soul clean and let my morals get dingy.”

“And always, there was the magic of learning things.”

Source : BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

“When my husband died in 2006, I didnt want to be Mitzi Gaynor anymore.”

“The brain is the cornerstone of virtually every facet of our lives. I wish we knew more.”

“Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he would have done other things but that he died young.”

“For my part, I wish, with Mr. Howells, that the literature of the past might be purged of all that is ugly and barbarous in it, although I should object as much as any one to having these great works weakened or falsified.”