Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does what one feels and what one achieves.

My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally I was able to stop waiting tables and I was able to pay the rent and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic but good enough to make a living.

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

Success will always be measured by the extent to which we serve the buying public.

Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.

I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.

Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget but in the size of our hearts in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures.