Om began to feel the acute depression that steals over every realist in the presence of an optimist.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

Karl Von Clausewitz

We are full of false approaches to so essential a part of our lives; work is often regarded as a means to produce money, and money in its turn a means to relieve us of the necessity to work.

Rúhíyyih Rabbani

If you don't believe in your product, of if you're not consistent and regular in the way you promote it, the odds of succeeding go way down. The primary function of the marketing plan is to ensure that you have the resources and the wherewithal to do what it takes to make your product work.

Jay Levinson

My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.

Anthony Horowitz

Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.

Natalie Gulbis

Once I traveled about in an old bakery wagon, double-doored rattler with a mattress on the floor, I stopped where people stopped or gathered, I listened and looked and felt, and in the process had a picture of my country the accuracy of which was impaired only by my own shortcomings.

John Steinbeck, Travels With Cha

God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

John Donne

I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.

Ethel Barrymore

He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only , and no knowing.

Aidan Chambers

Life takes its path and sometimes there are people to blame. Of course there are bad people in this world. Good, bad, it happens unfortunately. But in a way I think if there was more focus on the good, more good would happen.

Andrea Corr

Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and move off into the wilderness, let Congress jargon as it will,can such a form of so-called Government continue for any length of time to torment men with the semblance, when the indispensable substance is not there.

Thomas Carlyle

Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.

Theodor Adorno