I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term.

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Whether one or many, I must declare my faith that it is better for India to discard violence altogether even for defending her borders

Mahatma Gandhi

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Herman Melville

I had a story tell, a story that needed to be told so that people would know the truth.

Jessica Lynch

America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.

Toby Young

The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.

Anon.

Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don't seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn't have the kind of long term positive impact that it should.

Howard Gardner

Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Peace Pilgrim

If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.

Neils Bohr

A little man often cast a long shadow.

Italian Proverb

We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship, for to undertake to wound or offend a man for his own good is to have a healthy love for him.

Michel de Montaigne

The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought

Ralph Waldo Emerson