"If I had to name the number one asset you could have for any sport I'd say speed. In baseball, all a guy with speed has to do is make contact."

“Common sense solutions to lowering your gasoline bills can go far. Carpooling, taking fewer or shorter road trips, and ensuring that your tires are fully inflated can all help stop the pinch at the pump.”

“I think . . . that philosophy has the duty of pointing out the falsity of outworn religious ideas, however estimable they may be as a form of art. We cannot act as if all religion were poetry while the greater part of it still functions in its ancient guise of illicit science and backward morals. . . .”

“It is hard to have a true friend, and it is harder to be the one....”

“I am a theatre actor, but the last ten years I've taken parts in movies because it keeps me in money.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.”

Source : Charles Babbage (1841). “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures”, p.4

“Redefine what it means to be sexy and what it means to be a woman. Showing my skin is not what makes me sexy. I like skirts and dresses just like everyone else, but I had a message I needed to put out there. It was up to me to show people and young girls there was another way.”

Source : "Janelle Monae For ESSENCE, Talks Body Image, ‘Showing My Skin Is Not What Makes Me Sexy’" By Julee Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2013.

“People conquered on different sides of the lake should be ruled on different sides of the lake.”

“If travel were so inspiring and informing a business ... then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.”