"What business had I to think of one that never thought of me?"

“Syria is a terrorist state by any definition and is so classified by the State Department. I happen to think Iran is too. Iraq, Iran, Syria, they're all involved.”

“They bore within their breasts the grief That fame can never heal- That deep, unutterable woe Which none save exiles feel.”

Source : 1848 Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and other Poems,'The Island of the Scots', stanza12.

“The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him.”

Source : "A talk with Jimmy Breslin, New York's "New Yorkiest" writer" by Jerry Schwartz, www.businessinsider.com. March 19, 2017.

“I will tell you where there is power: where the dew lies upon the hills, and the rain has moistened the roots of the various plant; where the sunshine pours steadily; where the brook runs babbling along, there is a beneficent power.”

“Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.”

Source : Philip Guedalla (1930). “Independence Day: A Sketchbook”

“It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened”

“Doesn't it seem to you," asked Madame Bovary, "that the mind moves more freely in the presence of that boundless expanse, that the sight of it elevates the soul and gives rise to thoughts of the infinite and the ideal?”

“Learn how to communicate, learn how to speak.”