The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country.

Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.

Allen Klein

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Hermann Hesse

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

George Washington

Don't waste your time striving for perfection, instead, strive for excellence -- doing your best.

Sir Laurence Olivier

People fall forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

Thomas Huxley

Right now a moment is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate. give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

Paul Cezanne

When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you will always long to return.

Leonardo DaVinci

Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri.

Francis Parkman

We are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom, democracy and liberty, not to violate that.

John O. Brennan

Individual organ of human brain makes individual decision for working of brain and driving behavior in humans.

Santosh Kalwar

Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.

Woodrow Wilson