To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic.

Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Herman Kahn

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

Lou Holtz

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further.

Mahatma Gandhi

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Mary Pickford

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we can acquire an attitude of self-belief, then we will surely determine our future actions and our future life opportunities.

Stephen Richards

The British Red Cross asked me to help them spearhead a fundraising campaign for the victims of the war in Nicaragua. It was a turning point in my life. It began my commitment to justice and human rights issues.

Bianca Jagger

Nearly all men have weak hearts, in one way or another.

Steven J. Carroll