Comrade Deng Xiaoping - along with other party elders - gave the party leadership their firm and full support to put down the political disturbance using forceful measures.

Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Hervey Allen

I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make.

Shimon Peres

When I learn something new-and it happens every day-I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.

Bill Moyers

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

Simone Weil

For most of my life, I believed that my father had broken many of my bones. They were emotional and psychological bones; things no one could see, things that caused me to limp through life clutching for and holding on to people and situations that often rendered me immobile.

Iyanla Vanzant

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

Walt Whitman

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

Blaise Pascal

Be careful what you ask for because you just might get it.

Source Unknown

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

Samuel Butler

'We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood.

Ernest Hemingway

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

George S. Patton

Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of nourishment. And music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony.

Cat Stevens