George Washington

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

In reality, Afghanistan has functioned as a nation-state for more than two centuries, and its army and bureaucracy reach back to the 19th century.

Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books.

It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.