He disliked contradiction, and still more, arguments that were continually skipping from one thing to another, introducing new and disconnected points, so that there was no knowing to which to reply.

I wish to say to you that the life of an enlightened people and a vibrant nation cannot be measured by the life of an individual. A successful person is one who manages to lay down a new stone, a brick that would help firm up his nation's existence.

King Hussein

Trust and believe, and you will achieve.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

Benjamin Disraeli

Look twice before you leap.

Charlotte Bronte

There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.

Eric Hoffer

Horses have hoofs to carry them over frost and snow; hair, to protect them from wind and cold. They eat grass and drink water, and fling up their heels.... Such is the real nature of horses.

Chuang Tzu

All I could do was to offer you an opinion upon one minor point

Virginia Woolf

I've never considered the possibility of defeat. I've never planned for it. That's the job for those people who plan for such things. My job is to only plan for success...victory; it has my complete focus.

Spuds Crawford

Entitle us to the Liberty of proving the Truth of the Papers, which in the Information are called false, malicious, seditious and scandalous.

John Peter Zenger

Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity.

Rudyard Kipling

I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal.

Patrick Rothfuss

My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.

Pete Rose