"I loved duping my parents; I liked manipulating them. It was a way for me to stand out. It was fun."

“The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example”

“In dedicating his estate to the honoring of endeavors that benefit mankind, Alfred Nobel expressed a lifelong concern that is even more timely in 1972 than it was in his lifetime.”

“Men pass away, but their deeds abide. [His last words.]”

“Capitalism is like the law of the jungle with a few rules. There isn't another system that works for our society but left unchecked, capitalism can have a dehumanising effect.”

“Interviewing is not a democratic art.”

Source : "Vanishing act" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2007.

“As one by one I mowed them down, my superiority soon became apparent”

“The truth is, no study is possible on the battle-field; one does there simply what one can in order to apply what one knows . Therefore, in order to do even a little, one has already to know a great deal and to know it well.”

Source : Ferdinand Foch, Alphonse Grasset (1920). “Precepts and Judgments”

“Community-based policing has now come to mean everything. It's a slogan. It has come to mean so many different things that people who endorse it, such as the Congress of the United States, do not know what they are talking about”

Source : William Blackstone, St. George Tucker (1996). “Blackstone's Commentaries: With Notes of Reference to the Constitution and Laws, of the Federal Government of the United States, and of the Commonwealth of Virginia: With an Appendix to Each Volume, Containing Short Tracts Upon Such Subjects as Appeared Necessary to Form a Connecte”, p.315, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.