I was standing next to a famed geo-politician when the first news of the Argentine attack [on the Faulkland Islands] was received, and heard him muse incredulously: "An old-fashioned naval battle. A war between two civilized nations, perhaps with even a declaration of war, and later a peace conference. Wow." No hostages, no nukes, no ideologies, no religious fanaticism; just a fair-and-square war over national interests - hard to believe, in this day and age.

Never feel guilty about reading, it's what you do to do your job.

Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.

At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning.

Took me a while to get to the point today, but that is because I did not know what the point was when I started.

Of higher value than any one leader is the cause.

English is a stretch language; one size fits all.