It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.

We have all eternity to celebrate our victories, but only one short hour before sunset in which to win them.

Robert Moffat

Noble fathers have noble children.

Euripides

The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.

Melody Beattie

I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.

Nate Silver

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

Benjamin Disraeli

Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?

Richard Dawkins

Each is responsible for his own actions.

H. L. Hunt

You always admire what you really don't understand.

Blaise Pascal

If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not suffice to assuage the thirst for blood, the path of destruction must lead to universal annihilation.

Albert Camus

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.

Clare Boothe Luce

Read your own compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Samuel Johnson

perhaps,thought Felix,that's what magic is--physics with a different twist to it.my world just hasn't discovered the twist.

Elizabeth Kay