Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder.... the working class who fight all the battles, the working class who make the supreme sacrifices, the working class who freely shed their blood and furnish their corpses, have never yet had a voice in either declaring war or making peace. It is the ruling class that invariably does both. They alone declare war and they alone make peace....They are continually talking about their patriotic duty. It is not their but your patriotic duty that they are concerned about. There is a decided difference. Their patriotic duty never takes them to the firing line or chucks them into the trenches.

At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close friends.

Daniel Nathans

No man will ever bring out of the presidency the reputation which carries him into it

Thomas Jefferson

I learn more with every job, and I'm very thankful for where I am.

Liam Hemsworth

They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a director's imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground.

Toby Jones

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love

George Eliot

There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Chief Seattle

We would like to ease the life of the Palestinians. I prepared a new plan that we call a positive agenda.

Silvan Shalom

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Napoleon Hill

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

Orlando Bloom

Never mistake activity for achievement.

John Wooden

I have enough money in the bank now to buy enough beans and rice for twenty-five years. To the end (sometimes longed for). Why not kidnap Suzy and sneak off to the life of a semi-hermit? A tempting, constantly tempting idea. ......Peace. Simplicity. Order, ceremony and ritual. Voluntary poverty. An end to clutter and this vulgar, stifling, crushing burden of things

Edward Abbey, Confessions of a B

I get up early in the morning, 4 o'clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that's enough. In the afternoon, I run.

Haruki Murakami