I often conduct an orchestra in my sleep; my orchestras are so huge that the back desks of the violas vanish into the horizon. And everything is so wonderful.
Friendship with the wise gets better with time, as a good book gets better with age.
Conquer with forbearance The excesses of insolence.
The ignorant torment themselves more than they do others.
As the quality of water changes with the nature of the soil;So will a man's reason vary with the quality of his friends.
When you are about to badger the weak, Then imagine yourself before a more powerful man.
Whatever things a man gives up, By those he cannot suffer pain.
When you're around negative energy it gets to you if you keep letting it affect you.
Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get. . . to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here.
In the increasingly convincing darkness The words become palpable, like a fruit That is too beautiful to eat.
I have been elevated to such a high status that the fall will be very steep.