Are we not all desperate one way or another?

The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India

I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.

Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors.