Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
After a storm comes a calm.
If you think you can do it, you can.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Take the decision in early March to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr. It was made apparently without knowledge or understanding of the nature of his movement or how widespread it is.