Never reduce a target. Instead, increase actions. When you start rethinking your targets, making up excuses, and letting yourself off the hook, you are giving up on your dreams!
The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
I walked beside the evening sea And dreamed a dream that could not be; The waves that plunged along the shore Said only: "Dreamer, dream no more!"
Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
Experience to a politician is like experience to a prostitute - not much to recommend them.
What happened to that man I was seven autumns ago? What happened to that country? Time heals, yes - and thank God the pain and terror of that time has abated, at least for most of us. In that sense time is a mercy. But time also obscures the life-giving truths we perceive in the light of the shadow of death. In that way, time is a curse.
The struggle to reach the top is itself enough to fulfill the heart of man. One must believe that Sisyphus is happy.
How little wives may realize that a biting, stinging word in the morning will rob a husband of efficiency the whole day long. But a loving, tender, beautiful word—a little prayer word—will fill him with music and will lead him into victory.