Be clear on where you are and where you want to go and you will get there. It can be the best year of your life.
Tis very strange men should be so fond of being wickeder than they are.
Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm.
Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.
Business neglected is business lost.
In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.
I felt in my bones that this universe does not explain itself.
The Russians need to understand that you cannot have peace [in Syria] unless you resolve the question of Sunni buy-in.
History should be to the political economist a wellspring of experience and wisdom.