Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.
No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth.
Always sleep with one eye open. Never take anything for granted. Your best friends might just be your enemies.
The sweetest smiles hold the darkest secrets.
You hear about those stories where a person is married to someone and they have another family - that's pretty much unforgivable!
The best secrets are the most twisted
Whatever baggage you have, use it. Conquer it. Don’t let it stop you.
This one isn’t just any old horse. There’s a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and never can be? I tell you, my friend, there’s divinity in a horse, and specially in a horse like this. God got it right the day he created them. And to find a horse like this in the middle of this filthy abomination of a war, is for me like finding a butterfly on a dung heap. We don’t belong in the same universe as a creature like this.
Currently, it was leading him through a neighborhood that was on the downside of whatever curve you hoped you'd bought your property on the upside of. Graffiti and garbage were everywhere here. They were everywhere in the city, if it came to that, but elsewhere the garbage was better quality, and the graffiti was close to being correctly spelled. The whole area was waiting for something to happen, like a really bad fire.
In a president, character is everything. A president doesn't have to be brilliant. . . He doesn't have to be clever; you can hire clever. . . You can hire pragmatic, and you can buy and bring in policy wonks. But you cant buy courage and decency, you cant rent a strong moral sense. A president must bring those things with him. He needs to have, in that much maligned word, but a good one nonetheless, a vision of the future he wishes to create. . But a vision is worth little if a president doesn't have the character - the courage and heart - to see it through.
Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.