HopeSmiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'...

One friend in a lifetime is much two are many three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Brooks Adams

We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.

Douglas Coupland

There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.

William Congreve

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

Abraham Lincoln

Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.

Sir Philip Sidney

Abuse is the very hallmark of liberty.

Lord Quintin Hogg Hailsham

In the experimental sciences, the epochs of the most brilliant progress are almost always separated by long intervals of almost absolute repose.

François Arago

The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.

Sun Tzu

I'm a morning person because I learned to write my novels while still practicing law. I would get to the office at 6:30 a.m. and write until other people arrived, around 9. Now I still do that. I start at 6:30 or 7, and I'll write until 11, then take an hour off, then work until about 2 p.m. By then my brain has had enough.

Steve Berry

One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best.

Alan Shearer

The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb