"People respond well to those that are sure of what they want."

“I'm a fan of Jay-Z, I'mma always be a fan of Jay-Z.”

Source : "T-Pain Says He Has No Beef With Jay-Z" by Jayson Rodriguez, www.mtv.com. September 9, 2009.

“There's no preventative measure between the Palestinians, between those terrorists to the state of Israel.”

Source : "Extended Interview With Silvan Shalom". "PBS NewsHour" with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. February 1, 2004.

“You are so beautiful, he mouthed. But of course she couldn’t see his lips. Guess he was going to have to show her.”

Source : J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 5-8”, p.2735, Penguin

“On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from the sparkling depths of the aromatic jar below the stairs of Aunt Sally's cellar.”

“There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.”

“I think Welfare Reform did more harm than good, but one piece of good it did was it changed the attitudes of Americans. If we look at voter surveys even before the recession, the idea that people are poor because they're lazy was much stronger in the early '90s than it was even before the recession. Now with the recession, everybody knows somebody who is poor through no fault of their own. So voter attitudes are more favorable than they've been since the '60s.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

“Ive struggled just as much as anyone else.”

“Fantasy is, of course, booming, and I think it's beginning to stretch its range as well.”