Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

William Lippmann

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

Ezra Pound

We need to apply the science of communication to the communication of science.

Preston Manning

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.

Jeremy Taylor

Seek truth from facts.

Deng Xiaoping

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst expect the best and take what comes.

Hannah Arendt

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of reaction, the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually exist in the mind.

William Wordsworth, from Preface

When in doubt, delete it.

Philip Cosby

There is no reason at all why there aren't enough people to guard New Orleans and to help stabilise Baghdad.

Christopher Hitchens

I used to play football at school, and I enjoyed really physical sports, but I now try to avoid any sports that might build up different muscles. That might have a negative impact on my archery.

Im Dong-Hyun

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it

Maya Angelou