Each one of us is serious individually, but together we become frivolous.

Everything interested him and everything excited him.

William McKinley was a man made to be managed.

What other country has had the privilege of making the world's heart beat faster?

Diplomacy's primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION.

The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman.

The author says one patrician English leader saw his relationship with the populace thusly: He wasn't responsible TO them. He was responsible FOR them. He was responsible for their care.

A minister's (cabinet member's) function was not to DO the work but to see that it got done.

Duty was not untinged by ambition.

Britain had an air of careless supremacy which GALLED her neighbors.

Even his own speeches bored him.

Through sincere Thankfulness, the incredibly difficult struggles of my yesterday, have been transformed into the“Good ol’ Days” upon which I can now Peacefully reflect .

Our current bittersweet relationship with our sleep hasn’t had a long history.

I like prefaces. I read them. Sometimes I do not read any further.

Would you not like to be, sittin' on top of the world with your legs hanging free?

I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.

We have great power to see the truth when the truth is all we wish to see; but what is easier than to credit what we desire? and can a man deceive anyone so easily as himself?

As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.

A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents.

The proverbist knows nothing of the two sides of a question. He knows only the roundness of answers.

If you wish to live exactly as you please, the Angkar will put aside a small piece of land for you.