Dont let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesnt go with it. – Colin Powell
War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support. – Colin Powell
The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny. – Colin Powell
Wouldnt it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind? – Colin Powell
Dr. Richard Bentley (1662-1742)… is said one day, on finding his son reading a novel, to have remarked—’Why read a book that you cannot quote?’— a saying which affords an amusing illustration of the nature and object of his literary studies. – Cyclopædia of English Literature edited by Robert Chambers, 1844