Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day - Will Durant

All that is good in our history is gathered in libraries. At this moment, Plato is down there at the library waiting for us. So is Aristotle. Spinoza is there and so is Kats. Shelly and Byron adn Sam Johnson are there waiting to tell us their magnificent stories. All you have to do is walk in the library door and the great company open their arms to you. They are so happy to see you that they come out with you into the street and to your home. And they do what hardly any friend will — they are silent when you wish to think.

Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.

In the last 3,421 years of recorded history only 268 have seen no war.