No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction. – Charles Kendall Adams
There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves. – Will Rogers
United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while theyre trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony. – Richard Holbrooke