Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.

Four years in the White House and two presidential campaigns is an awful long time. In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, six years off your life.

George Stephanopoulos

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Thomas Carlyle

A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books.

Plato

On the horizon, he saw the full moon. God dropped it there, he was sure, as a reminder of our small place in the world. A reminder that what is beautiful is fleeting.

Ben Sherwood

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

William Ralph Inge

One of my theories is that men love with their eyes women love with their ears.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

Mary Astell

But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.

Albert Camus

I disapprove of what you say, but I defend to the death your right to say it.

Voltaire

I try not to confuse roles and traits in my own life. Being the Perl god is a role. Being a stubborn cuss is a trait. :-)

Larry Wall

Man loves little and often. Woman much and rarely.

Basta

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

William Shakespeare