All tragedies are finished bya death, All comedies are ended bya marriage; The future states of both are left to faith.

Somebody must trespass on the taboos of modern nationalism, in the interests of human reason. Business can't. Diplomacy won't. It has to be people like us.

I have learned that the cost of everything from a royal suite to a bottle of soda water can be halved by the simple expedient of saying it must be halved.

There, carried high on a bank of clouds, hovers a shape, a triangle in the sky. This is the Holy Mountain Athos, station of a faith where all the years have stopped.

Herat, 8 December. What a day it was! God save me from any more adventures on a drained stomach.

All present life is but an interjection, An'Oh!'or 'Ah!'of joy or misery, Or a 'Ha! ha!'or 'Bah!'a yawn or 'Pooh!' Of which perhaps the latter is most true.

But after being fired at once or twice, The ear becomes more Irish, and less nice.

The mountains look on Marathon And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free.

You can always learn to do more than you can at any point in your life.

I’m a long-flight pilot. Pushing a little bubble of air-filled metal across an ocean of nothing is what I was born to do.

I don't hire anybody not brighter than I am. If they're not brighter than I am, I don't need them.

The relationship between Israel and the United States is a bond of - it’s just a very powerful bond. It was, it is, and will be and will continue to be.

God wants people to meet Him when they meet us.

My biggest fear is love and getting hurt in love but still believing.

Other arms reach out to me, Other eyes smile tenderly, Still in peaceful dreams I see, The road leads back to you.

There is no systematic corruption in FIFA. That is nonsense. We are financially clean and clear.

Lars [Ulrich] of Metallica is one of the worst drummers I've ever heard, but they hide it because they spend millions recording.

Canada, by others in the global family, is, for some reason, taken seriously. They have about 30 million people. They have some natural resources.