Before the beginning of yearsThere came to the making of manTime, with a gift of tears;Grief, with a glass that ran;Pleasure, with pain for leaven;Summer, with flowers that fell;Remembrance, fallen from heaven,And madness risen from hell;Strength without hands to smite;Love that endures for a breath;Night, the shadow of light,And Life, the shadow of death.

We start each day with a blank sheet of paper in front of us, and what we write on it is up to us.

John Larkin

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.

Edward George BulwerLytton

I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.

Shirley Bassey

A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

Fidel Castro, Speech on the 2nd

A man of great common sense and good taste is a man without originality or moral courage.

George Bernard Shaw

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Brian Tracy

Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Science must not impose any philosophy,any more than the telephone must tellus what to say.

G.K. Chesterton

I know the exploding cost of health care is at the root of our long-term fiscal challenges.

Fred Upton

The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.

Tom Osborne

No man, proclaimed Donne , is an Island, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each other's tragedies. We are insulated (a word that means, literally, remember, made into an island ) from the tragedy of others, by our island nature, and by the repetitive shape and form of the stories. The shape does not change: there was a human being who was born, lived, and then, by some means or another, died. There. You may fill in the details from your own experience. As unoriginal as any other tale, as unique as any other life. Lives are snowflakes-forming patterns we have seen before, as like one another as peas in a pod (and have you ever looked at peas in a pod? I mean, really looked at them? There's not a chance you'd mistake one for another, after a minute's close inspection), but still unique.

Neil Gaiman

Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Adrienne Gusoff