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“I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing that I had always wanted. But things didn't work out that way.”
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“I knew Hillary Clinton from undergraduate days and was enormously impressed with her. She was a terrific energy and enthusiasm, and a great organizer. And I knew that she was going to have a political future.”
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“You need bad things to make good things. It’s like with farming— if you want to grow a good crop, you need a lot of manure.”
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“There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.”
Source : "See It Now (A Conversation with J. Robert Oppenheimer)". Documentary (interview with Edward R. Murrow), January 4, 1955.
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“I learned how to sumon, from somewhere deep within, the extra will I didn't know I possessed. Knowing it was there, and could be tapped again, gave me the boost of confidence I would rely on for years to come.”
Source : Sugar Ray Leonard, Michael Arkush (2011). “The Big Fight: My Life In and Out of the Ring”, p.40, Penguin
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“the most censorious are generally the least judicious; who, having nothing to recommend themselves, will be finding fault with others. No man envies the merit of another, that has any of his own.”
Source : Ellin Devis (1801). “The Accidence: Or First Rudiments of English Grammar. Designed for the Use of Young Ladies”, p.131
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“See the judge upon the bench who tries the case as best he can, see the wise and wicked ones who feed upon life's sacred fire, see the soldier with his gun who must be dead to be admired.”
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“Like the sun that sets at the end of the day, so too will Ramadan come and go, leaving only it's mark on our heart's sky.”
