Even a snail will eventually reach its destination.
Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
He who plants a tree, plants a hope.
It is a conquest when we can lift ourselves above the annoyances of circumstances over which we have no control; but it is a greater victory when we can make those circumstances our helpers,--when we can appreciate the good there is in them. It has often seemed to me as if Life stood beside me, looking me in the face, and saying, "Child, you must learn to like me in the form in which you see me, before I can offer myself to you in any other aspect.
Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.
The religion of our fathers overhung us children like the shadow of a mighty tree against the trunk of which we rested, while we looked up in wonder through the great boughs that half hid and half revealed the sky. Some of the boughs were already decaying, so that perhaps we began to see a little more of the sky than our elders; but the tree was sound at its heart.
It is when people do wrong things wilfully that they are the more likely to do them again.
My assistants generally do all the flowers and all of the decorative work. I concentrate on the figure.
Fedor has no weakness. I have seen so many fights, and even the best fighters in the world have a flaw in their game but I have yet to find one in Fedor Emelianenko.
There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual and with culture. . .