We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
Our visions begin with our desires.
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
We all have a side of ourselves that we can never explain.
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
Russia is opposed to the proliferation of mass destruction weapons, including nuclear weapons, and in this context we call upon our Iranian friends to abandon the uranium enrichment programme.
We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.
Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class.
Hanging may seem barbarous, but the greater barbarity lies in the slow abandonment of our common law traditions.
When I was eight, my pals and I went up to my bedroom, put on our party frocks and mimed to ABBA records using broom handles as microphones.
