The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice.

I feel like I'm part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, 'I've got to do a better job.'

Andrea Jung

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

Samuel Butler

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Marshall McLuhan

The day after the prison was transferred to the military intelligence command, they had an entire battalion - 1,200, 1,500 soldiers - arrive at Abu Ghraib just for force protection alone.

Janis Karpinski

As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release.

Jackson Browne

That big muscular frame of his held plenty of animal courage, but helped him to no decision when the dangers to be braved were such as could neither be knocked down nor throttled.

George Eliot

Trust in God - she will provide.

Emmeline Pankhurst

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Snowmen fall from heaven... unassembled.

Anon.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Loss is a significant force that can serve as a catalyst for change. It can bring about an awakening, drawing out something sacred within us.

Mark Ireland

But I owe something to Vincent, and that is, in the consciousness of having been useful to him, the confirmation of my own original ideas about painting. And also, at difficult moments, the remembrance that one finds others unhappier than oneself.

Paul Gauguin