He would use amphetamines to stay awake because he would have late night maneuvers that would go way into the early morning hours and he was given pills to stay up for the long hours.

I have often marveled at the thin line which separates success from failure.

Ernest Shackleton

To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.

Charles Caleb Colton

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

E. B. White

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Thomas J. Watson

Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse.

Mary Wesley

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

Carl Jung

He who awaits much can expect little.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

Alfred Tennyson

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Freda Adler

The biggest thing in making money is time. You don't have to be particularly smart, you just have to be patient.

Warren Buffett

War is hell.

William Tecumseh Sherman

My focus as part of the leadership is to keep talking about the independent voters, independent voters - how do we get the independent voters back?

Henry Cuellar