Men of success meet adversity head on.

I wanted the world to know that my country, Ethiopia, has always won with determination and heroism.

The die is cast.

-- The Roman general

Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.

-- The British general who defeated Napoleon at Water

No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.

-- Britain's greatest naval hero

Imagination rules the world.

-- The French emperor whose military genius reshaped

In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.

-- The 'Desert Fox' whose North African campaigns made him the most respected German general of World War II among both allies and enemies

In a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to recall.

-- Miguel de Cervantes