He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you.

Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first.

But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.

It isn't an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don't know, especially when that person chooses to reveal nothing of himself.

These people make my family look easy to get along with.

If we truly trust no one, we cannot survive.

He whines, he complains, he ducks out of the most obvious responsibility. He is vain, petty and maddening, but he doesn't ever quit.

No man can choose to serve only himself when he has something to offer his state. No one can put his own wishes above the needs of so many.

I am not sure I trust you.""You can trust me with your life, My King.""But not with my wine, obviously. Give it back.

Were you lying?""I never lie, " he said piously. "About what?""The sand, the snake."For a young man who never lied, he seemed surprisingly unoffended by the question.

Teaching is the most powerful force that changes our world one student at a time.

Diogenes, filthily attired, paced across the splendid carpets in Plato's dwelling. Thus, said he, do I trample on the pride of Plato. Yes, Plato replied, but only with another kind of pride.

With sociology one can do anything and call it work.

I listen to the people. That was a big reason for my life, maybe the main reason, I'm singing because I love it when people say to me, 'Thank you.' I thank them. It's a marriage.

Social and economic well-being will become a reality only through the zeal, courage, the non-compromising determination of intelligent minorities, and not through the mass.

The euro currency both presupposes and promotes a fiction - that 'Europe' has somehow become, against the wishes of most Europeans, a political rather than a merely geographic expression.

Even if your fantasy comes true, that doesn't mean you should stop dreaming.

Hippie said he couldn't stay. Be back tomorrow -Love,Mom

Watching Life on Mars was quite frightening for me because dipping in and out of reality was quite like myself

My entire career is a succession of things I did wrong and learned from.