In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Let's give the historians something to write about

No rival will steal away my sure love; that glory will be my gray hair.

By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.

Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?

Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.

Love is fostered by confidence and constancy; he who is able to give much is able also to love much.

Let each man have the wit to go his own way.

I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength.

Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.

Even if my strength should fail, my daring will win me praise: in might enterprises even the will to succeed is enough.

Emulate greatness to be great.

We will embarrass our descendants, just as our ancestors embarrass us. This is moral progress.

Here, there's no anger, no loss, not even fear. When he's battling, everything has a crystal clarity, just action and reaction.

I mean the opposite of what I say./You've got it now? No, it's the other way.

I'd just love magic. I'd love to be able to just click and transport. I'd be like a fairy little godmother, I think, going round hearing what people wish for and seeing what I could do for them.

I was 15 when I first became deeply touched by the rhythm and structure of words.

I have lost my smile, but don't worry. The dandelion has it.

To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.

We don't wish for the easy stuff. We wish for big things. Things that are ambitious, out of reach.

Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few.