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“The most essential elements of success in life are a purpose, increasing industry, temperate habits, scrupulous regard for ones word ... courteous manners, a generous regard for the rights of others, and, above all, integrity which admits of no qualification or variation.”
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“The statesman must think in terms of the national interest, conceived as power among other powers. The popular mind, unaware of the fine distinctions of the statesman's thinking, reasons more often than not in the simple moralistic and legalistic terms of absolute good and absolute evil.”
Source : Hans Morgenthau (1955). “Politics Among Nations”
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“My personal missteps - how many Americans have died as a result of that? None. Other than my family, how many victims were there? None. And yet, in refusing to engage in a responsible debate about Iraq, how many Americans died? Thousands. And America seems to have no problem with that.”
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“Walk away from 'friendships' that make you feel small and insecure, and seek out people who inspire you and support you”
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“The trains are central to Bombay just as the subway is central to New York; they are the great social laboratory of that city. And today, they became a charnel-house.”
Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
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“No man can be stronger than his destiny.”
Source : Mary Hunter Austin, Marjorie Pryse (1987). “Stories from the Country of Lost Borders”, p.24, Rutgers University Press
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“You know, I'm gay and I grew up being aware of that at a very early age, in a fairly repressed family.”
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“In acute suffering the need for meaning is as strong or stronger than the need for happiness.”
Source : Peter L. Berger (1969). “The sacred canopy: elements of a sociological theory of religion”
