The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.