I have marveled often at the thin line that divides success from failure and the sudden turn that leads from apparently certain disaster to comparative safety.

Optimism is true moral courage.

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

-- Douglas MacArthur

I shall return.

-- Douglas MacArthur

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

-- Winston Churchill

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

-- Winston Churchill

I have no distinguished academic record nor special talent to boast of. But there is one thing I can take pride in: when I decide to do something, I always see it through.

-- Naomi Uemura

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

-- Alexander the Great