I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else....

Winston Churchill

Putin has a lot at stake here and restoring the relationship with the United States, and there are already signs as Sandy mentioned that he's moving in the right direction to begin to ascertain that their trade with Iran is not used for the production of nuclear weapons.

Frank Carlucci

In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to rebuild and reconstruct there. But many thousands of Americans die from violence and poverty every year and we don't have a plan for reconstruction at home.

Jesse Jackson

I think there is a special bond between Carolina athletes. A lot of people seem to wear our gear because it is fashionable. They love the colors. It's Michael Jordan's school!

Lorrie Fair

The eventual place the American army should take on the western front was to a large extent influenced by the vital question of communication and supply.

Kelly Miller

You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.

Azar Nafisi

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Knowledge is a destination. Truth, the journey.

Terry Goodkind

It's like, it's up to the people to fall in love with the song. The record company can only do so much.

Paul Westerberg

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

Michel de Montaigne

Listen to many, speak to a few.

William Shakespeare

Johnson, who defines as 'metrical composition', defines as 'An inventor; an author of fiction; a writer of poems; one who writes in measure'. We can gauge how far we have traveled by comparing this with the Shorter Oxford Dictionary which, after a definition very like Johnson's, feels obligated to add 'A writer in verse (or sometimes in elevated prose) distinguished by imaginative power, insight, sensibility, and faculty of expression'.

C.S. Lewis