Nepotism is the lowest and least imaginative form of corruption.

The city was lovely. There could be no place in the world to which he belonged so completely.That was why he'd always dreamed of leaving, and why he'd always been so afraid to go.

I don't think you ever realize how much you love something until you have to give it up.” ~Haley James Scott

I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

Be as you wish to seem.

Until I was six years old we lived in the projects, then my two brothers and three sisters and I moved to a three-bed that my mother's father built.

Being prepared to die is one of the great secrets of living.

I'm a big fan of dreams. Unfortunately, dreams are our first casualty in life - people seem to give them up, quicker than anything, for a 'reality.'

Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence.

Voila, pleasurable indeed. Oh yeah, satisfy my need. Alright, how I long to be. My soul on fire and my spirit free.

Becoming a mother is the best thing that's happened to me.