Afghanistan is going to be here a long time, and what's critical is that Afghanistan's relationship with its neighbors are, to the maximum extent they can be, constructive and operationally useful.

When you're in a car which can win every race, or fight for a win every race, that is pressure.

Jenson Button

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

Source Unknown

One should always play fair when one has the winning cards.

Oscar Wilde

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

Joseph Campbell

If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. I would go to more dances. I would ride more merry-go-rounds. I would pick more daisies.

Nadine Stair

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

Calvin Coolidge

We all are so deeply interconnected; do good for any one and that will be reflected.

Amit Ray

There are a good many books, are there not, my boy? said Mr. Brownlow, observing the curiosity with which Oliver surveyed the shelves that reached from the floor to the ceiling.A great number, sir, replied Oliver; I never saw so many.You shall read them if you behave well, said the old gentleman kindly; and you will like that, better than looking at the outsides, - that is, in some cases, because there are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Charles Dickens

I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.

Mary Douglas

The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences.

Henry David Thoreau, The Writing

My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn't walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors.

James Woods

This is night, Diddykins. That's what we call it when it goes all dark like this.

J.K. Rowling