Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: Are your ready?

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

Irving Babbitt

I've been in many of them and to some extent I would have to say this: If you've seen one city slum you've seen them all.

Spiro T. Agnew

Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.

Adam Hochschild

The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail. You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.

Conor Cruise O'Brien

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

Albert Einstein

I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it

Thomas Jefferson

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. Esdras 3:10

Bible

For my love, I will wade through an ocean of blood, even if it destroys me

Christopher Paolini

Anything that has been accomplished by any other human being in the physical realm is within the field of possibility.

Wayne Dyer

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

Stephen King

NATO has been a thread throughout my life.

Madeleine Albright