The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
After a storm comes a calm.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Leap, and the net will appear.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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.