labor not after riches first, and think thou afterwards wilt enjoy them. He who neglecteth the present moment, throweth away all that he hath. As the arrow passeth through the heart, while the warrior knew not that it was

It's hard either way, at home or on the bus, I think the hardest thing probably for me is going one second from being mom to right out on the stage and having to be that person too. It's hard to switch gears.

Lee Ann Womack

Time: that which man is always trying to kill, ends in killing him.

Herbert Spencer

But evil is wrought by want of thought as well as want of heart!

Thomas Hood

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

Lewis Carroll

We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page.

Barack Obama

Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people.

John Desmond Bernal

Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.

Salman Rushdie

Tranquilizers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle - keep away from children.

Phyllis Diller

In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Leslie Caron

Speak the truth! One committed mouth carries the seeds that could change a generation and change the world.

Steve Maraboli

Age for me is just a number.

Haile Gebrselassie

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

Charles Fourier