A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.

He looked up at them, a scruffy Napoleon with his laces trailing, exiled to a rose-trellised Elba.

Terry Pratchett

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Red Auerbach

I had to fight my whole life to break out of my circumstances. That's just part of my makeup.

Hilary Swank

We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.

Douglas Adams

The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival.

Eric Hoffer

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

A woman is like a teabag -- only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.

Nancy Reagan

Therefore if you insist upon fighting to protect me, or

Virginia Woolf, Three Guineas (1

Deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable.

Og Mandino

Patience is sorrow's salve.

Charles Churchill

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.

Jefferson Davis

Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.

Alexander Pope