Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
If you think you can do it, you can.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
You never know what motivates you.
After a storm comes a calm.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
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.