“I am sad that the LDK has chosen not to participate in that first meeting. They are unhappy about the current composition of the council.”

Mankind’s suffering belongs to all men.

To be alone as a pioneerlike we were, was difficult. My strategy was not only to help the people, or transform the world, but to do both

We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war.

Shoot first and never miss.

By definition a sequel can’t be original. So you’ve got to figure out what worked the first time around.

But here too it should be noted that the President’s approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade.

The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don’t want to go there.

There are bad types and good types, and the whole science and art of typography begins after the first category has been set aside.

You have to be very brave in that first writing session.

The moral man is he who is opposed to injustice per se, opposed to injustice wherever he finds it; the moral man looks for injustice first of all in himself.

It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one’s own.