In complex situations, we may rely too heavily on planning and forecasting and underestimate the importance of random factors in the environment. That reliance can also lead to delusions of control.

My point was that removing Saddam should not have been our highest priority. Fighting terrorism should have been our number one concern, followed by the Palestinian peace process.

Brent Scowcroft

In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change.

John Barton

Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Abraham Lincoln

Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.

Lionel Trilling

I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley.

Sir Winston Churchill

Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.

Marquis De Vauvenargues

I wasn't prepared to get a mammogram until I was 40 years old, like I'd been told. I never in my wildest dreams expected anything to be wrong.

Giuliana Rancic

His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.

James Joyce

I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.

Kofi Annan

Truthiness is what you want the facts to be as opposed to what the facts are. What feels like the right answer as opposed to what reality will support.

Stephen Colbert

The right to be heard does not autmatically include the right to be taken seriously.

Hubert Humphrey