An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

I have lived a life that has been beautiful and painful at some moments. But I am convinced others can learn how to control a certain kind of rage that bubbles up in many Americans, particularly, but not limited to, women, blacks, and other minorities.

Jayson Blair

I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.

John Philip Sousa

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

William Shakespeare

Once you understand how powerful you are within, you exponentially increase the power and potentiality of everything outside of you.

Steve Maraboli

Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.

Goran Persson

Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off.

Chris Patten

Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.

Emily Bronte

A bitter reality of truth can be wisely told in a sweet tale of lullaby.

Toba Beta

[Thine] face is not worth sunburning.

William Shakespeare

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

You have the freedom to live and let live, to love and let love. Granting yourself that freedom is one of the healthiest, most constructive things you can do for yourself and the people who matter to you.

Martha Beck

I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987.

Paul Muldoon