Floating in a lake, lying in a hammock, playing a bit of Scrabble. . . that's what I'm in need of.
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
I am whatever was, or is, or will be; and my veil no mortal ever took up.
A healer of others, himself diseased.
The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as formidable as possible, the second as pleasant as possible, to the participants.
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and capitalists alone, are guilty of war. Oh no, the little man is just as guilty, otherwise the peoples of the world would have risen in revolt long ago!
For a time they confronted each other like two mute unspeaking forts.
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
My clothes are built to show off the woman who wears them. I like them to be simple. . . to move well, to move with the times and a little ahead of the times.