The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as only one amongst many. The important thing here is not personal mettle but aligning oneself with the universal.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Robert H. Schuller

Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines, but political maxims, civil and criminal laws, and theories of science. The gospel, on the contrary, only speaks of the general relations of men to God and to each other - beyond which it inculcates and imposes no point of faith. This alone, besides a thousand other reasons, would suffice to prove that the former of these religions will never long predominate in a cultivated and democratic age, whilst the latter is destined to retain its sway at these as at all other periods.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Who wooed in haste and means to wed at leisure

William Shakespeare

Oh courage...oh yes! If only one had that...Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.

Henrik Ibsen

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Muhammad Ali

For example, the Prime Minister earlier this year talked about the importance of the Arctic to our future. He's right. A hundred years from now, the strength of Canada is going to be coming from our resources in the Arctic.

Brian Mulroney

One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesn't work on this mirror principle, you don't have an exact replica on the left of what you have on the right. It just doesn't work that way.

Thomas Frank

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.

Hannah Arendt

Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.

C.S. Lewis

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Dale Carnegie

There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work.

Ken Livingstone

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

Paulo Coelho