Whenever I'm asked what advice I have for young writers, I always say that the first thing is to read, and to read a lot. The second thing is to write. And the third thing, which I think is absolutely vital, is to tell stories and listen closely to the stories you're being told.

The war we are fighting until victory or the bitter end is in its deepest sense a war between Christ and Marx. Christ: the principle of love. Marx: the principle of hate.

Joseph Goebbels

Love in a hut, with water and a crust, IsLove, forgive us! cinders, ashes, dust.

KEATS: _Lamia,_ Pt. ii., Line 1.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Roger Maris

I hope the readers of this book may experience the same benevolent and elevating feeling which I have experienced when I was working on its creation, and which I experience again and again, when I reread it every day, working on the enlargement and improvement of the previous edition.

Leo Tolstoy

There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.

Steven Levy

Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.

Barbara Amiel

For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us. Outside, the day may be blue and gold, but the light that creeps down through the thickly-muffled glass of the small iron-barred window beneath which one sits is grey and niggard. It is always twilight in one's cell, as it is always twilight in one's heart. And in the sphere of thought, no less than in the sphere of time, motion is no more.

Oscar Wilde, De Profoundis

When we're talking about technology that involves weapons of mass destruction, nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, there has to be an element of preemption.

John Sununu

You may lose your wife, you may lose your dog, your mother may hate you. None of those things matter. What matters is that you achieve success and become free. Then you can do whatever you like.

Kevin O'Leary

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

B. C. Forbes