I wish you would moderate that fondness you have for your children. I do not mean you should abate any part of your care, or not do your duty to them in its utmost extent, but I would have you early prepare yourself for disappointments, which are heavy in proportion to their being surprising.

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.

Colin Powell

Tranquility is the old man's milk

Thomas Jefferson

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

John Henry Newman

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.

Socrates

To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.

Roy L. Smith

The technology used to detect if vehicles are carrying radioactive material is so sensitive it can tell if a person recently received radiation as part of a medical procedure.

Timothy Murphy

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

James A. Garfield

Everything is a piece of me, a moment of my life.

Ursula Andress

When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It's perfectly possible to go to church every Sunday and not ask any questions, just because you like it as a way of life. They fear that if they ask questions they'll lose their Christ, the very linchpin of their religion.

A. N. Wilson

In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of freedom, like a bastard brother of reform.

Percy Wynham Lewis

There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.

Walt Whitman