Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country.

I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.

The time has come to put an end to the fratricidal war and to recover at last peace and accord.

As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness.

I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.

If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.

Managers and leaders cause most of the organizational confusion and frustration by not doing their jobs — their real jobs.

Together a brick and a blanket create the perfect metaphor for life. Will you be a brick and make something of your life, or be a blanket and sleep your life away?

Half the secret of getting along with people is consideration of their values the other half is tolerance in one's own views.

Reichert offers us a Heracleitean stream of self-reflection into which we can step more than once, for we can see ourselves empathically mirrored in it: his interiority is our own.

The Forest of Arden, where I grew up, is where As You Like It is set. It was idyllic.

Think today's interest rates are high? The Pilgrims borrowed $7000 from a London company of 70 investors in 1620, and devoted the next 23 years to repaying it at 43 percent.

Personal, spiritual symmetry emerges only from the shaping of prolonged obedience. Twigs are bent, not snapped into shape.

Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.

It's taken us a short time to change the nature of nature. In my lifetime, more change than during all preceding human history put together.

I kiss you and kiss you, With arms around my own, Ah, how shall I miss you, When, dear, you have grown.