Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them.

Barbara Boxer

There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past. We must look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward across the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past.

Sir Winston Churchill

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare

Some spend their entire lives wondering if they have made a difference in this world. The Marines don't have that problem.

Ronald Reagan

In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the world's Priest; -- guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time.

Thomas Carlyle

To do a great right do a little wrong.

William Shakespeare

Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the harmony of ugliness or beauty, vice or virtue.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

The question arises as to whether it is possible not to live in the world of men and still to live in the world.

Louise Bernikow

It doesn't matter if you're 20, 40, 60, 80, or 100. Embrace your sexy-ass self and express it!

Steve Maraboli

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues

Benjamin Franklin

You cannot run at full throttle when applying your mindset to all of the different things running through your head. Focusing is the key to manifesting your desires.

Stephen Richards

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

Arthur Koestler