I long to hear the story of your life, which must captivate the ear strangely.
In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices.
We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.
The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
To live is often to struggle toward goals one has no desire to reach.
When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity.
The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
Love comes softly, it cannot be forced. . . cannot bear the weight of our expectations. Love always comes in the surrender - in the falling.
Sometimes I surprise my own damn self.
I told him they built a statue of Schultz, and then he said that a monument is cold comfort to a dead man, and then I said that the statue was built not for Schultz, but for us--to remind us how to be human.
Change is a process which has to be managed. If it's managed and managed well in the interest of the nation and the people, the likelihood is that it will end well.