You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
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 wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.