"Not offering this kind of guarantee means that they do not believe in their product enough, and they do not care about if a salesman is over promising or over selling their product."

“Be seriously involved with growing, with your own development, and never fear. Be the kind of person who is naturally powerful, positive, ingenious, open, to the highest degree. Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to reality.”

“From the Balkans to Africa, from Asia to the Middle East, we have witnessed the weakening or absence of effective governance leading to the ravaging of human rights and the abandonment of longstanding humanitarian principles. We need competent and responsible states to meet the needs of "we the peoples" for whom the UN was created. And the world's peoples will not be fully served unless peace, development and human rights, the three pillars of the UN, are advanced together with equal vigour.”

“Tony Hale is a devout Christian and is a complete ***** when it comes to swearing. The script called for him to swear for about 30 seconds and he just couldn't do it.”

“Instead of trying to modify what nature brought us, we embraced it,”

“We shall not enter into any of the abstruse definitions of war used by publicists. We shall keep to the element of the thing itself, to a duel. War is nothing but a duel on an extensive scale.”

“Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.”

“No one will ever follow you down the street if you're carrying a banner that says, Onward toward mediocrity.”

Source : "A Conversation with Martin de Maat". The Monthly Aspectarian, August 1998.

“You should try to get what you want in life and try not to be limited.”