He who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day... needs to reorganize his life.

I always rejoice when I see a tribunal filled with a man of an upright and inflexible temper, who in the execution of his country

Joseph Addison, Guardian, No. 99

Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot.

John Major

A friend of mine once defined love as finding someone you can talk to late into the night

James Patterson

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.

Annie Leibovitz

If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.

Stephen Covey

It could be said that a single person has written all the books in the world such central unity is in them that they are undeniably the work of a single all-knowing master.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good.

Saint Augustine of Hippo

We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future.

Steve Maraboli

The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.

Allen Ginsberg

A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.

Ibrahim Babangida

I feel so fortunate, so honored, to have played this game that I love for so long, with so many great players, and in front of so many wonderful fans. I fulfilled a childhood dream the first time I stepped on an NFL field, and the league did not let me down one time.

Drew Bledsoe