A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.
J. R. R. Tolkien
In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Know how to listen and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
Plutarch
The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
Abraham Lincoln
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
Francis Bacon
He had an incredible game. Believe it or not he can do this on a consistent basis and the challenge he gets is judging how to pick the defense we are going to have to penetrate.
Kobe Bryant
I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually.
Desmond Tutu
Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
Honore de Balzac
On 16 September 1985 when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation the American Empire died.
Gore Vidal
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Oscar Wilde
