If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

He who is brave is free.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

Therefore love moderately. Long love doth so. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.

US worse off than before Saddam because US lost credibility.

Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the deed, is living and can live on.

It posed the question posed by all such stone piles.: how had puny men moved stones so big? And, like all such stone piles, it answered the question itself. Dumb terror had moved those stones so big

We must together build an economic agenda for the India of our dreams that translates into improved standards of living, increased human well-being and assured social justice.

Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.

In order to deliver the emotional truth in the story, you have to include some of the literal truth.

What gets measured gets done.