"Anyone can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time, and for the right purpose and in the right way – that is not within everyone's power and that is not easy."- Aristotle

"Not becoming like your enemy is the best revenge."-Marcus Aurelius

"I don’t know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me." -Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington,(the original Iron Duke) commenting on his own generals in his fight against Napoleon.

"We fought, we dreamed, and the dream is still with us."-Ronald Reagan, 1976, after losing the Republican presidential nomination to Gerald Ford.

"Facts are better than dreams."-Winston S. Churchill, May 10, 1940, upon realizing his lifelong ambition to become Prime Minister of Britain even as the Nazi tide was swamping Europe.