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Youth is the important period, on the improvement or neglect of which depend the most important consequences to individuals and the community.

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.

For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in all its dimensions and ramifications.

Women have a predestination to suffering.

A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.

If you're sensitive, you will have a hard time with me.

The best part of touring is the opportunity to make the music. You get to do what you love and have the ability to go out on stage every night and create.

People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.

I think it's wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to mankind.

I approached writing a story for the CBC Literary Awards as a mercenary venture - $5,000 for one story, not bad. Now, how do you win it? Jurors are wading through skyscrapers of paper, looking for one story that stands out.

My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis.

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.

Jean was visited by one of her rare moments of happiness, one of those moments when the goodness of God was so real to her that it was like taste and scent; the rough strong taste of honey in the comb and the scent of water. Her thoughts of God had a homeliness that at times seemed shocking, in spite of their power, which could rescue her from terror or evil with an ease that astonished her.

I am hoping for peaceful transition into a new age. Obama has already played a great role in initiating us into that vision. If he were to be harmed in any way, it would spawn the birth of a million Obamas.

Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.

Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge stands to not only increase the United States' oil reserves by nearly 50 percent, but it will create thousands of good U.S. jobs.

If all I hired were cake decorators, our cakes would just look like cakes that people decorate. We do astounding work at Charm City Cakes and to do that you need people who think in astounding ways. Artists just think in different ways.

When we make purchases on credit, they give us only an illusion of prosperity.

She understands now what she, in all her worry, had forgotten. That even as she hesitates and wavers, even as she thinks too much and moves too cautiously, she doesn't always have to get it right. It's okay to look back, even as you move forward.

I've been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I'm driving, I hear I'm a moron. I like being a moron.