Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.

The book you don't read won't help.

Jim Rohn

If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

China has no income tax, no unemployment and not a single soldier outside its borders.

Chou En Lai

I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher.

Moses Mendelssohn

We support every effort to combat international terrorism through the formulation of international conventions and hope that the international community will take further steps to improve the anti-terrorism international legal framework.

Li Peng

Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.

Conor Cruise O'Brien

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Virgil Thomson

Ask , and it shall be given until you. That is no vain or untried promise, Ruth!

Elizabeth Gaskell

...you have a terrible beauty that scares me - a fierce defiance that won't be subdued - not that i want to tame you - I don't - I like to look...

John Geddes

I hate being placed on committees. They are always having meetings at which half are absent and the rest late.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I refused to believe that love could take any other form than mine: I measured love by the extent of my jealousy, and by that standard of course she could not love me at all.

Graham Greene

The President's speech suggested to me that were we to follow his leadership, we will be in Iraq not for months, but for years. I also hope I am wrong on this.

Daniel Inouye