Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

Joseph Brodsky

The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.

Lawrence G. Lovasik

Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling ones pulse and taking ones temperature. I see that a speaker at the week-end said that this was a time when leaders should keep their ears to the ground. All I can say is that the British nation will find it very hard to look up to leaders who are detected in that somewhat ungainly posture.

Sir Winston Churchill

Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I think we need to significantly reduce the regulatory burden on the private sector. The Obama administration is doing the opposite. They're loading on more and more regulation on the private respect to how the economy functions.

Dick Cheney

I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents, events, preoccupations and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry.

Andrew Motion

Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy.

Beyonce Knowles

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

Norman Schwarzkopf

Fly without wings; Dream with open eyes; See in darkness.

Dejan Stojanovic

Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Sir Edward Coke

I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.

Elvis Presley

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson