Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

When one of your dreams come true, you begin to look at the others more carefully.

Anon.

The first day, a guest; the second, a burden; the third, a pest.

Edouard R. Laboulaye

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

Water is sufficient...the spirit moves over water.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

American Idol transcends age, gender, ethnicity, everything.

Carrie Underwood

Next to temperance, a quiet conscience, a cheerful mind and active habits, I place early rising as a means of health and happiness.

Source Unknown

I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.

Nastassja Kinski

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Thank are dreamt of in your philosophy.

William Shakespeare - Hamlet, A

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

Lao Tzu

There's full consensus in the military that women shouldn't be in person-to-person combat. I don't know if we have enough experience to know whether this is the right approach. But women can be elsewhere. We have mandatory military service in Chile. I pushed for women in all areas.

Michelle Bachelet

Life is at its best when everything has fallen out of place, and you decide that you're going to fight to get them right, not when everything is going your way and everyone is praising you.

Thisuri Wanniarachchi