There are important cases in which the difference between half a heart and a whole heart makes just the difference between signal defeat and a splendid victory.

There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

William Makepeace Thackeray

My principle is to do whatever is right, and leave the consequences to Him who has the disposal of them

Thomas Jefferson

Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Being a President is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or he is swallowed.

Harry S Truman

Diplomacy, of course, is a subtle and nuanced craft, so much so that it's said that when the most wily diplomat of the nineteenth-century passed away, other diplomats asked, on reports of his death, What do you suppose the old fox meant by that?

Ronald Reagan

While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.

Ray Kroc

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Hannah Arendt

The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.

Pat Riley

Do what we can, summer will have its flies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lead's erasing then vanishingBanished from whatever it is they're drinking and it's cleanedRunning from the pitcher as if it's her fantasy

Criss Jami

The sated day is never firstThe best day is a day of thirstYes, there is goal and meaning in our path -but it is the way that is the labour's worth.

Karin Boye

We are Americans when we go to war, and when we return, we are Mexicans.

Dennis Chavez