When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
Every man has within himself the entire human condition
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
Only the fools are certain and assured.
Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
It's clear that there has to be some play between the vitality of invention in economic life and some regulation of it, and in some ways the great ideological wars of the 20th century that cost so many lives had to do with whether to have managed economies directed by government or economies directed by the free movement of capital, which is only partially subject to government regulation.
I will not be able to rule without you. You and I have the same responsibility. I do, as Bolivia's number one servant. Servant - one who serves the nation, not one whom the nation serves.
Barack Obama knows that America cannot be strong abroad unless we are strong at home. People the world over have always been more impressed by the power of our example than the example of our power.
I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.