Al Qaeda is very media-savvy and very focused on what goes on in the global media.
A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good.
Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.
Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
All passion becomes strength when it has an outlet.
You have to lead your life according to your ideas. Spend all your money and live life in line with what you are fighting for. I hate it when rich people try to be Communists. I think that’s obscene.
We can act instead of being acted upon.
I'm a kibitzer with a broad portfolio.
. . . in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.