Luck can often mean simple taking advantage of a situation at the right moment, It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.

I am a stupendously fast reader and always have been. I can read in at least three languages fluently and two languages with a little bit more difficulty.

Patton's personality was a complex one - he was obsessed with glory, but behind the ivory-hilted pistols, the egomania, the forbidding scowl, and the rows of ribbons, there was a much more ambiguous figure.

From time to time, one imagined Bill Clinton had charisma, but it never really was more than an occasional false glare.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War,' as it was called until 1939.