I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war. I vote no.

The only easy day was yesterday.

US Navy SEALs

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.

Henry David Thoreau

Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

Oscar Wilde

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Willa Cather

I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.

Nelson Mandela

I wish they would only take me as I am.

Vincent Van Gogh, Dear Theo: Au

The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some have benefited more some have benefited less from that economic well-being in Afghanistan.

Hamid Karzai

It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

B. F. Skinner

Rejection isn't a sign of failure. Rejection is a reminder that there's always room for improvement.

Ana Hart

Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I'm rolling through a ghetto neighbourhood.

Coolio

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.

Will Durant

It doesn't matter whether you're talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another if a man is a scientist, like me, he'll always say Publish and be damned.

Jacob Bronowski