We want peace and development in all 10 states of South Sudan - we don't want military backing.

We are all trying to make it the best way we know how, so when we look at each other as individuals and nations we should do so with compassion.

I knew that I was smart enough to learn. I knew that I could learn, if I could just go to school and not hear gunshots.

I would not call it a difficult life, really. I just had a lot of challenges at a very young age.

An author, whether good or bad, or between both, is an animal whom every body is privileged to attack: for though all are not able to write books, all conceive themselves able to judge them.

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.

People can only make you inferior with your consent.

Goodness and love mould the form into their own image, and cause the joy and beauty of love to shine forth from every part of the face.

My only hope was to be polite.

The reality is the cap-and-trade legislation offered by the Democrats amounts to an economic declaration of war on the Midwest by liberals on Capitol Hill.

I resolve never to make any resolutions because all resolutions are restrictions for the future. All resolutions are imprisonments.

You're not in competition with other women. You're in competition with everyone.

I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.