From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.
Will DurantForget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day
Will DurantAnd last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world.
Will Durant