Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired
Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.
Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable.
People travel because it teaches them things they could learn no other way.
One can live with the thought of one's own death. It is the thought of the death of the words and books that is terrifying for that is the deeper extinction.
Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business.
The busybodies have begun to infect American society with a nasty intolerance - a zeal to police the private lives of others and hammer them into standard forms - A Nation of Finger Pointers.
Scarlett tells Mammy: "I'm too young to be a widow. " She weeps to her mother: "My life is over. Nothing will ever happen to me anymore. " Her mother comforts her: "It's only natural to want to look young and be young when you are young. "
The success of the stock connect program and the increased market volatility means investors are looking for more products to access China markets performance than exchange traded funds, and futures are feeding that rising demand.
There is no force inherent in living matter, no vital force independent of and differing from the cosmic forces; the energy which living matter gives off is counterbalanced by the energy which it receives.
Nixon had three goals: to win by the biggest electoral landslide in history; to be remembered as a peacemaker; and to be accepted by the 'Establishment' as an equal. He achieved all these objectives at the end of 1972 and the beginning of 1973. And he lost them all two months later-partly because he turned a dream into an obsession.