The actions that we take on the counterterrorism front, again, are to take actions against individuals where we believe that the intelligence base is so strong and the nature of the threat is so grave and serious, as well as imminent, that we have no recourse except to take this action that may involve a lethal strike.

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Lee Iacocca

When I look about me, I see everywhere hope, calm resolution, courage, enthusiasm to face all difficulties, to settle all problems. ... We do not anticipate, and we do not want, that any individuals should forget the land of their origin or their ancestors. Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children.

Sir Wilfrid Laurier, "Quoted in

Man, I love coming home. St. Louis is actually hard to capture.

Chingy

I have lived in Mumbai for more than 20 years, have my domicile here, my home and family here.

Shahrukh Khan

A good author possesses not only his own intellect, but also that of his friends

Friedrich Nietzsche

The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.

Gore Vidal

Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more if future fortunes were known before!

John Dryden

My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate.

Victor Cruz

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

...for until that God who rules all the region of the sky...has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men were created with the understanding that they were to look after that sphere called Earth, which you see in the middle of the temple. Minds have been given to them out of the eternal fires you call fixed stars and planets, those spherical solids which, quickened with divine minds, journey through their circuits and orbits with amazing speed...

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Scipios D

Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability.

Shelley Winters

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.

John Berger