At 23 years old, I came into politics as a dragon slayer. At 63 years old, I'm going out as a dragon.
Poetry has been to me something more than amusement, it has been a cheering companion when I had no other to fly to, a delightful solace.
To wind the mighty secrets of the past, And turn the key of time.
The past is dead, and has no resurrection.
So, on the eastern summit, clad in gray, morn, like a horseman girt for travel, comes, and from his tower of mist night's watchman hurries down.
I do not like punishments. You will never torture a child into duty; but a sensible child will dread the frown of a judicious mother more than all the rods, dark rooms, end scolding school-mistresses in the universe.
And care, whom not the gayest can outbrave, Pursues its feeble victim to the grave.
Infinite money is available to a mind that is ready, willing, able, qualified and gives itself permission to earn and accept it.
It would not be difficult to be a better ruler than I was: for I admit that I ruled badly; and even if I was fortunate enough to satisfy my subjects, I was not fortunate enough to satisfy myself.
We lost faith in authority in the '50s, up to a point, and we spawned a lot of anti-heroes in movies, which were refreshing and open. But at this point, with the distrust that's there and the disillusionment with leadership that is so acute, we need some kind of a focus on taking the irony out and taking the anti-hero element away.
I wonder why rich people always grow fat I suppose it's because there's nothing to worry them.