The ruin of most men dates from some idle moment.

Sunsets in themselves are generally superior to sunrises; but with the sunset we appreciate images drawn from departed peace and faded glory.

Artists will sometimes speak of Rome with disparagement or indifference while it is before them; but no artist ewer lived in Rome and then left it, without sighing to return.

There are no eyes so sharp as the eyes of hatred.

Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.

Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy.

A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.

Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people.

Man is an animal that cannot long be left in safety without occupation; the growth of his fallow nature is apt to run into weeds.

Many persons feel art, some understand it; but few both feel and understand it.

The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and whose means are indirect, cowardly, and treacherous.

No situation is beyond the strength within.

In every argument there is a discovery of truth and a bed of success.

Face it, ' I said. 'There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got, ' I said.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

You cannot run a linear system on a finite planet indefinitely.

Just because somebody hears something you say, or reads something that you write, doesn't mean you've reached them.

Next to her, even the prettiest djamphir boys looked gawky.

And if we want to achieve our goal, then let us empower ourselves with the weapon of knowledge and let us shield ourselves with unity and togetherness.

I'm never the kind of person who's sitting at home reading the charts and basing how I feel about myself or even my career on stats. I've always based it on, 'Am I doing the best that I can do?'

The Liberals talk about a stable government but we don't know how bad the stable is going to smell.