If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it is to shape real events in a real world.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Cleverness is not wisdom.

Euripides

I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.

Charles Kuralt

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It takes time to see the desert; you have to keep looking at it. When you've looked long neough, you realise the blank wastes of sand and rock are teemming with life. Just as you can keep looking at a person and suddenly realise that the way you see them has completely changed: from being a stranger, they've gradually revealed themselves as someone with a wealth of complexities and surprising subtleties that you're growing to love.

Annie Caulfield

You can't know, you can only believe - or not.

C.S. Lewis

I had all kinds of food issues, including health concerns and weight concerns.

Sally Schneider

In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open flame, proving at a stroke that hydrogen is indeed explosively combustible and that eyebrows are not necessarily a permanent feature of one's face.

Bill Bryson

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

James C. Humes

Don't steal. The government hates competition.

Anon.

Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.

Eckhart Tolle

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

James Madison