"There are beauties of character which, like the night-blooming cereus, are closed against the glare and turbulence of every-day life, and bloom only in shade and solitude, and beneath the quiet stars."

“Texas deserves a leader who understands that making education a priority creates good jobs for Texans and keeps Texas on top.”

Source : "Wendy Davis announces she is running for Texas governor" by Tom Dart, www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2013.

“The happiest life has the greatest number of points of contact with the world, and it has the deepest feeling and sympathy with everything that is.”

Source : Liberty Hyde Bailey (1903). “The Nature-study Idea: Being an Interpretation of the New School-movement to Put the Child in Sympathy with Nature”

“I don't really like groups that make the same statement over and over again. It's good, but kind of predictable.”

“It's very hard when you're doing a new play that you believe in, and you want to tell the story in the best way possible.”

Source : Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“I dive as much as I can.”

“Every time I embrace a black woman I’m embracing slavery, and when I put my arms around a white woman, well, I’m hugging freedom. The white man forbade me to have the white woman on pain of death…. I will not be free until the day I can have a white woman in my bed.”

“Necessity urges desperate measures.”

“It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.”