The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

I do resent that when you're in the most cool, powerful time of your life, which is your 40s, you're put out to pasture. I think women are so much cooler when they're older. So it's a drag that we're not allowed to age.

Rosanna Arquette

The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.

Melody Beattie

Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.

Rudyard Kipling

So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do.

Nicolaus Copernicus

You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!

Oliver Cromwell

Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue among men.

Thomas Carlyle

Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.

George M. Adams

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Merle Shain

The destiny of man is in his own soul

Herodotus

When we focus our attention on things that are either in the past of in the future, it dilutes our experience of right now. Today is the day you can break from that.

Steve Maraboli

When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier.

Craig T. Nelson

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

Benjamin Disraeli