Never complain and never explain.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Who seeks shall find.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation, but a more general problem of how the liberal state deals with its anti-liberal enemies.