The relevance for 9/11 is that what 9/11 marked was the beginning of a struggle in which the terrorists come at us and strike us here on our home territory. And it's a global operation. It doesn't know national boundaries or national borders.

You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.

W. Clement Stone

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.

Dean Acheson

If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them.

Will Rogers

It's all too easy when talking about female gymnasts to fall into the trap of infantilizing them, spending more time worrying more about female vulnerability than we do celebrating female strength.

Meghan O'Rourke

The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms. Armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes.

Tacitus

I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored mans political hopes and the ark of his safety.

Frederick Douglass

Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.

Graham Greene

The truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door.

Mary Higgins Clark

To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.

Publilius Syrus

So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life.

Will Smith

The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day. And in kind that kindness will flow, For kindness grows in this way.

Robert Alan

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

Ambrose Bierce