Confidence is not "They will like me". Confidence is "I’ll be fine even if they don’t

For some reason, Beck's unexpected kindness was hard to bear - it made tears prick my eyes where Jack's threats hadn't.

Strive with all your hearts, raise up your voices and shout, until this dark world be filled with light.

somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals.

Always let losers have their words.

I paint flowers so they will not die.

The guiding principle of ruling elites was--and still is: When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed.

If (Black) is going for victory, he is practically forced to allow his opponent to get some kind of well-known positional advantage.

Nature without exercise is a seed shut up in a pod, and art without practice is nothing.

I mean the fact is that some of this information that we have found out that led to Usama bin Laden actually came from these enhanced interrogation techniques.

Our words should aim not to please, but to help.