Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.

Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts.

Leo Tolstoy

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

This is my 20th year in the sport. I've known swimming and that's it. I don't want to swim past age 30 if I continue after this Olympics, and come back in 2016, I'll be 31. I'm looking forward to being able to see the other side of the fence.

Michael Phelps

Always have some project underway an ongoing project that goes over from day to day and thus makes each day a small unit of time.

Lillian Troll

Los ojos se me llenaron de lágrimas. El dolor del duelo es como un invitado borracho, cuando parece que se ha marchado, vuelve a darte un último abrazo.

Stephen King

A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

H. L. Mencken

The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'

Dinah Shore

This morning when I put on my underwear I could hear the Fruit of the Loom guys laughing at me.

Rodney Dangerfield

We must convince each generation that they are transient passengers on this planet earth. It does not belong to them. They are not free to doom generations yet unborn. They are not at liberty to erase humanity's past nor dim its future.

Bernard Lown

God's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn.

Mark Twain

Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

I don't understand why people say that I am full of courage. I feel terribly nervous.

Aung San Suu Kyi