"Now I am as big of an [ Georgia] O'Keeffe admirer as Ivy [Wilkes] is, but that came through writing the book."

“The truth is, aging can be your realest opportunity to decide how best to live - and the best incentive for getting you to do just that.”

“The U.S. views Morocco as an important friend, and we applaud your political and economic reforms that culminated with the recent parliamentary elections that were widely reported to have been conducted in a fair and open manner.”

“Now the opportunity to destroy the USSR has arrived.”

Source : "The greatest battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow" by Andrew Nagorski, (p. 215), 2007.

“Man is a free agent; but he is not free if he does not believe it[.”

“How many people, how many of us want to get on an airplane where you know only, only 20% of the pilots use the checklist? Why would you do that? I think we should be outraged because the technology is there, it's totally available. We're just not using it yet.”

“Your goal, as a creative investor, is to launch your ship into financial orbit ... and then put it on automatic pilot.”

Source : Robert G. Allen (2006). “Creating Wealth: Retire in Ten Years Using Allen's Seven Principles of Wealth”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

“My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.”

“Autumn rain, autumn wind, they make one die of sorrow.”