Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.

Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.

Aldrich Ames

You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran the MBAs out of Washington.

Grace Murray Hopper

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

Gilbert Parker

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

George Eliot

Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it.

Hugh Walpole

The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.

Herbert Croly

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Sloan Wilson

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

Desmond Tutu

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

The living need charity more than the dead.

George Arnold

I don't do what I'm told, but I might do what you want if you ask me nicely.

Cassandra Clare

Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?

Eliza Cook