Begin: To have commenced is half the deed. Half yet remains; Begin again on this and thou wilt finish all.

It often happens, that misery will follow a marriage when the dowry is too large.

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself.

Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man.

Let the blacksmith wear the chains he has himself made.

If lucky be not proud; if unlucky, do not despond.

Begin whatever you have to do: the beginning of a work stands for the whole.

He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.

If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.

It is tormenting to fear what you cannot overcome.

Be not arrogant when fortune smiles, or dejected when she frowns.

Had the love been perennial, there won’t have been murders of wives by husbands and murders of husbands by wives, who were lovers at a point of time.

My girlfriend is an angel." -Xavier

Religion is defined as belief in and worship of a controlling power and atheism is precisely not that.

It has been left to our generation to discover that you can move heaven and earth to save five minutes and then not have the faintest idea what to do with them when you have saved them.

What invariably distinguishes a good player from a poor one is their respective address positions or setups.

I'm a rock-and-roll drummer, so my job is to create chaos.

Conscience is the anticipation of the fellow who awaits you if and when you come home.

I actually didn't get to go to my prom. I left high school when I was 16 to join 'NSYNC. I felt that was something I always missed out on, and all my friends got to go and would tell me about it.

physical disability looms pretty large in one's life. But it doesn't devour one wholly. I'm not, for instance, Ms. MS, a walking, talking embodiment of a chronic incurable degenerative disease.

I think that's what growing up is all about. It's about taking on new responsibilities and learning what you can handle, and learning what you can't.