It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Gentlemen, I fervently trust that before long the principle of arbitration may win such confidence as to justify its extension to a wider field of international differences. - Henry Campbell Bannerman
The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here. - David Kay
We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit. - Tom Brown, Jr.
To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic. - William Odom
It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer. - Abdul Kalam