The things that we want we willingly believe, and the things that we think we expect everyone else to think.
I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.
Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.
Intimately concerned as we are with the system of Europe, it does not follow that we are therefore called upon to mix ourselves onevery occasion, with a restless and meddling activity, in the concerns of the nations which surround us.
When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?
A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own.
Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm.
Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
When I came here [to Malaysia] I heard that there is a problem with the concept of pluralism whereby pluralism is understood in a very narrow way, which I think is wrong. This is not to diminish your sense of truth in what you believe but to acknowledge the fact that we live in a world where we need to deal with pluralism. It's a fact.
From the beginning, I imagined I would have a long work life.
I have no way and therefore want no eyes I stumbled when I saw. Full oft 'tis seen our means secure us, and our mere defects prove our commodities.