Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam. – Lyndon B. Johnson
The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with. – Sammy Davis, Jr.
Those who were pre-ordained to have no good karma at all — gazing into the lamp of emotional attachment, they are burnt, like moths in a flame. – Sri Guru Granth Sahib