A man like Verdi must write like Verdi.
Rapid change, accommodating it can be one of the great human capacities. But living through it can be the stuff of stress and often suffering.
Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.
Confidence is the public face of competence.
The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen.
The President, who really had been mostly managing his one-man Barack Obama narrative and journey his whole life, without executive experience, certainly - he's not a governor. Some governors, of course, they have experience in executing power, which is something fairly unique, actually, in government. And he has, neither, a set of nourishing experiences.
It is one thing to rouse the passion of a people, and quite another to lead them.
John Lennon was definitely my favorite Beatle, hands down.
Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
It is true that the role of the state in the Russian economy may be too big today, but from the fiscal standpoint, it is not always practical to do this in a falling market.
The river and the sea can be kings of a hundred valleys, because they lie below them.