In any case, decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any general or set of generals but by the civilian leadership of the war effort.

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

Jacob Bronowski

I thought of all the magazine article I'd read on mothers who worked and constantly felt guilty about leaving their children with someone else. I had trained myself to read pieces like that and silently say to myself, 'See how lucky you are?' But it had been gnawing at the inside, that part that didn't fit, that I never let myself even think about. After all, wasn't it a worse kind of guilt to be with your child and to know that you wanted to be anywhere but there?

Jodi Picoult

Byron says that it is easier to die for the woman one loves that to live with her.

Andre Maurois

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

Jean Paul

Directly after the show people might have responded better to it, but who really knows. It did what it did and while it seems like a failure to most but it was a success for me and has given me so many opportunities.

Justin Guarini

Mysteries do not as yet amount to miracles.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Humans are about to grasp basic substances of all creations. When that moment comes, life or death are no longer matters.

Toba Beta

I try to give positive energy in all my shows.

Curtis Jones

Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman.

Conrad Hilton

It will work. I am a marketing genius.

Paris Hilton

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

H. L. Mencken

Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead.

Kurt Vonnegut