Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.

I am a man of my word.

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind.

If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.

May it be my privilege to have the happiness of establishing the commonwealth on a firm and secure basis and thus enjoy the reward which I desire, but only if I may be called the author of the best possible government; and bear with me the hope when I die that the foundations which I have laid for its future government, will stand firm and stable.

I'd always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.