The strength and vitality of an empire is frequently due to the new aristocracy from the periphery.

Crassus was in the habit of maintaining that nobody should be called rich who was not able to maintain an army on his income.

Women have their uses for historians.

Pietas prevailed, and out of the blood of Caesar the monarchy was born.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

It is not enough to live together in peace, with one race on its knees.

The bridges you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.

The failure to set standards for Palestinian conduct hurts the cause of peace.

It's hard to believe that you're really here, so I just pretend that you're not here.

We live not in the world outside, but in a world inside ourselves.

A bad sermon is like a car wreck - everyone slows down to see what happened.

I'm not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me. I confess I don't even have a computer, I don't have a cell phone.

There is no country on earth with a stronger tradition of protecting the public's right to know.

Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections since 1996.