"Be patient with yourself and take heart. Your self-confidence will grow if you seek challenges and worry less about the initial insecurity."

“There is no magic in small plans.”

Source : Dr. Henrietta C. Mears (2016). “Sunday School Changes Everything”, p.5, NavPress

“What everyone underestimated was the acute unpopularity of the Taliban, even in the Pashtun areas. People like myself were saying the Taliban would be driven out very swiftly from the north of Afghanistan, but given that their main support base was in the Pashtun belt, there would be greater resistance there. That didn't happen. The Taliban had become deeply unpopular and were actually discarded by the Pashtun population almost as quickly as they were in the north. I don't see the Taliban coming back in any way.”

Source : Source: progressive.org

“I walked over to the hill where we used to go and sled. There were a lot of little kids there. I watched them flying. Doing jumps and having races. And I thought that all those little kids are going to grow up someday. And all of those little kids are going to do the things that we do. And they will all kiss someone someday. But for now, sledding is enough. I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn't.”

“There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference.”

Source : "Rand Paul Warns Donald Trump Not To Choose ‘Menace’ John Bolton As Secretary Of State" by Amanda Terkel, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2016.

“My whole family likes to play basketball. George II plays for his high school team and George III and George IV and George V are going to be good players. One day we're going to have a team and call it Georgetown.”

“There's nothing worth photographing more than 100 yards from the car”

“Black and white are absolute...expressing the most delicate vibration, the most profound tranquility, and unlimited profundity.”

“The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with detachment.”