In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.
Anita Brookner
Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.
Ian Frazier
Together we will build an America where hope is a new job with a paycheck, not a faded word on an old bumper sticker.
Mitt Romney
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
Golda Meir
The human soul is hungry for beauty; we seek it everywhere - in landscape, music, art, clothes, furniture, gardening, companionship, love, religion, and in ourselves. No one would desire not to be beautiful. When we experience the beautiful, there is a sense of homecoming.
John O'Donohue
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
George Washington Burnap
The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
Edward Everett Hale
My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
Abraham Lincoln
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson