A Foreign Secretaryand this applies also to a prospective Foreign Secretaryis always faced with this cruel dilemma. Nothing he can say can do very much good, and almost anything he may say may do a great deal of harm. Anything he says that is not obvious is dangerous; whatever is not trite is risky. He is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.

King Abdullah II

The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Johann von Goethe

See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.

Robert Collier

Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide - obsessions where the senses go berserk, where nerves are exasperated, and which made me, at the onset of each night, believe sleep impossible.

Andre Gide, Feuilles de route

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

Ernest Dimnet

When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings?

William C. Bagley, Craftmanship

Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

Claude M. Bristol

It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not yet a winner.

Vince Lombardi

Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.

Marshall McLuhan

If you aren't fired up with enthusiasm, you'll be fired with enthusiasm.

Vince Lombardi

The benefits of science are not to be reckoned only in terms of the physical.

Henry Taube

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Hubert H. Humphrey