Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
If you think you can do it, you can.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
You never know what motivates you.
In Barack Obama, Democrats have put forth a man of strong religious faith who is comfortable connecting his spiritual life to his public role as a policymaker.