The roads we take are more important than the goals we announce. Decisions determine destiny.

The present is not an instant shared by all space, but an event, i.e. an instant at a place in space.

Felix Alba-Juez

I could not sit seriously down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life; and if it were indispensable for me to keep it up and never relax into laughing at myself or at other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter.

Jane Austen

Before borrowing money from a friend decide which you need most.

Proverb

Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.

Bette Davis

The ability to master other languages (which would have hugely enhanced the scope of these answers). Fully conscious, and either fighting or reciting (or fooling around). The way in which it makes former admirers search for neutral words.

Christopher Hitchens

The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it's possible to achieve the American dream.

Tommy Hilfiger

Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than raising of the next generation.

C. Everett Koop

I think that the proposed constitution is one of the European legal documents with the strongest social dimension I have seen since I began following European issues.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

The purpose of all war is peace.

Augustine of Hippo

I think what he's - what he believes, and he may be correct, I don't know, that we have some intelligence information that leads us to know some things about what's going on in Iraq that we haven't revealed to others.

Lawrence Eagleburger

Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Alexander Hamilton