Variant: A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.
Variant: A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.
“Each day is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift to Him.”
Source: Maximize the Moment: God's Action Plan For Your Life
“The greatest danger to our future is apathy.”
"The Power of One", Time Magazine (26 August 2002)
This appears to be a variation of a quote often attributed to Caskie Stinnett in 1960, "A diplomat...is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip" https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=kcycAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA90&dq=%22A+diplomat+is+a+person+who+can+tell+you+to+go+to+hell+in+such+a+way+that+you+actually+look+forward+to+the+trip.%22 but which appears to have been in common use in the 1950s and is first recorded in the Seattle Daily Times in 1953 as "Diplomat—one who can tell you to go to hades and make you look forward to the trip". http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/a_diplomat_is_a_person_who_can_tell_you_to_go_to_hell_so_that_you_look_forw/
Misattributed
Variant: Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions
“If you try to please everyone you’ll please no one.”
“Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near”
Source: Aleph
“If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.”
The Raven Cycle Series, The Raven Boys (2012)
“I think the thing to do is to enjoy the ride while you're on it.”
“I always felt like I was meant to have been born in another era, another time.”