What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth.

A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

Walter Scott

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

Mahatma Gandhi

It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art.

Henry Louis Gates

I love the idea of marriage. I definitely want marriage and little Kellans running around.

Kellan Lutz

I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply don't know what the alternative would have been.

Juliet Stevenson

I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science.

Joseph Rotblat

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

Oscar Wilde

Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.

Titus Livius

When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you.

Walter Payton

That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.

A. R. Ammons

I became intent on saving him through showing him that he was loved.

Joyce Johnson

I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

Romain Rolland