Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love. - George Eliot

 

 

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. - Confucius

 

 

Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past. - Erica Jong

 

 

Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance. - Epicurus

 

 

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world. - Colin Powell

 

 

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte

 

 

He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self. - The Buddha

 

 

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. - Anne Frank

 

 

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

 

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. - Swedish Proverb

 

 

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. - Robert F. Kennedy

 

 

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. - Dale Carnegie

 

 

We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre. - Dick Gregory

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war. - George W. Bush

 

 

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars. - Richard M. Nixon

 

 

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. - Frank Herbert

 

 

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition. - Henry James

 

 

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with. - William Halsey

 

 

History is a vast early warning system. - Norman Cousins

 

 

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. - Edward R. Murrow

 

 

Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution. - Anwar Sadat

 

 

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. - Confucius

 

 

 

Hate is never conquered by hate, Hate is only conquered by love. - The Buddha

Fall seven times, stand up eight. - Japanese Proverb

 

 

 

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. - Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt