To be a success you need to have persistence of drive, persistence of vision, and persistence of action. You will be doing yourself a disservice by not staying resilient.

…it’s not just learning that’s important. It’s learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.

I've decided I don't like books that end with 'The End'. The fact that there are no more pages, suggests to me that the book has ended.

I decline utterly to be impartial between the fire brigade and the fire.

A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly use soberly distribute cheerfully and leave con-tently.

The true test of anyone's worth as a living creature is how much he can utilize what he has.

Did we not aid the grisly Taliban to achieve and hold power? Yes indeed 'we' did. Well, does that not double or triple our responsibility to remove them from power?

Guilt was never a rational thing; it distorts all the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, it leaves a man no longer in the free use of his reason, it puts him into confusion.

A mind that practices love cannot love.

Do not think that your Learning and Genius, your Wit or Sprightliness, are welcome everywhere. I was once told that my Company was disagreeable because I appeared so uncommonly happy.

I know something about killing. I don't like killing. And I don't think a state honors life by turning around and sanctioning killing.