Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.

Karlie Kloss

I was not born to be prime minister, and I'm not going to stay here until the end of my life. I'm too young for that.

Ehud Olmert

wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness

Cassandra Clare

A danger foreseen is half-avoided.

American Indian Proverb, Cheyenn

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.

Herbert Hoover

a wind has blown the rain away

E.E. Cummings

Nobody has ever bet enough on a winning horse.

Proverb

One of the matters that must be addressed is that Rwanda and Uganda have to leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We're also supporting processes to ensure that the political dialogue among the Congolese themselves takes place so that the people there can decide their future.

Thabo Mbeki

I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.

Alan Rickman

War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

Sir Walter Raleigh

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out communication is getting through.

Sydney J. Harris

Man cannot live by bread alone he must have peanut butter.

James A. Garfield