A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself. Marilyn Monroe
America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. Frederick Douglass
My fiction is almost always inspired by a character's need or desire to rise above him- or herself. No one is perfect and some of us have much adversity in our lives; it is those people who struggle to rise above their nature or background that I find the most interesting and heroic. Robert Crais
My mother was a huge influence on me. She was a living example of what a Christian should be. Her conviction, her discipline. She would rather see other people happy than herself. Barry Sanders
Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself. Mahatma Gandhi