Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.

I think that some of our soldiers die in the battlefield and some come home to bad health and die prematurely, just by the nature of the kind of business they're in.

Christopher Shays

Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.

Milton Friedman

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Mignon McLaughlin

Synthetic life-forms were less than ten years old, the old android mechanicals less than sixteen; the faults of their systems were still being ironed out, year by year.

Brian Aldiss

Nature surpasses nurture.

Proverb

Love didn't grow very well in place where there was only fear, just as plants didn't grow very well in a place where it was always dark.

Stephen King

When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.

Ernest Hemingway

Leadership is an ever-evolving position.

Mike Krzyzewski

Man loves little and often. Woman much and rarely.

Basta

They were governed by private loyalties which they did not question. What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an embrace, a tear, a word spoken to a dying man, could have value in itself

George Orwell

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

George Burns

Women oftentimes are the ones making those economic decisions, sitting around the kitchen table and trying to figure out how to pay for rising gas prices or food prices or the health insurance costs. And I think that they see where they expect their leaders in Congress to also make those tough decisions.

Cathy McMorris