Don't sit back and wait for life to happen to you. Have a plan and take the needed steps to create what you want.

There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.

E. M. Cioran

The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.

John Cornyn

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Vladimir Nabokov, Strong Opinion

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty.

Henri Becquerel

The answer was that in Burundi, having a clean bill of health has taken on a very particular meaning: unless and until you have paid for your hospital treatment, you simply can't leave, you are in effect a captive.

Rowan D. Williams

Without knowing it, Javert in his awful happiness was deserving of pity, like every ignorant man who triumphs. Nothing could have been more poignant or more heartrending than that countenance on which was inscribed all the evil in what is good.

Victor Hugo

Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either.

John Gay

My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries.

Yo-Yo Ma

I've actually suffered from allergies my entire life. My mom had allergies, so I was aware of what an issue they can be. Many people allow their allergies to affect their lives. As a mom with two kids and two jobs, I just can't let allergies slow me down. It's a day to day thing that can really be remedied by finding the right medication.

Alison Sweeney

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

R. Buckminster Fuller

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Vladimir Lenin