For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so good and evil in the end become confounded. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
Men must try and try again. They must suffer the consequences of their own mistakes and learn by their own failures and their own successes. – Lawson Purdy
Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech: Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum. – John Kenneth Galbraith
My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill. – Thomas Friedman
The wedding ring on my left hand was bought by my grandfather, Samuel Miliband, in Brussels in 1920. I never knew him, as he died when I was one. But his ring was kept by my aunt until it was placed on my finger by my wife Louise 32 years later. – David Miliband
