B.szoke

“All the evidence of history suggests that man is indeed a rational animal, but with a near infinite capacity for folly. . . . He draws blueprints for Utopia, but never quite gets it built. In the end he plugs away obstinately with the only building material really ever at hand--his own part comic, part tragic, part cussed, but part glorious nature.”
― Robert S. McNamara

“Mankind, if it is to survive, must choose its leaders by the test of their intellectuality; and, contrarily, leadership must justify itself by its detachment, moderation and power of analysis.”
― John Keegan, The Mask of Command

“Why, you are a man of heart!"
"Sometimes," replied Phileas Fogg, quietly. "When I have the time.”
― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

“I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.”
― Winston Churchill