It was never wise for a ruler to eschew the trappings of power, for power itself flows in no small measure from such trappings.
Sometimes it's hard to look at a flower, when your dying inside.
I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.
If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank statements before they tell us what we could or should do with our own mo...
You haunt my days and dreams.
A kiss a day keeps your wife's wrath away.
Joy cannot be pursued. It comes from within. It is a state of being. It does not depend on circumstances, but triumphs over circumstances. It produces a gentleness of spirit and a magnetic personality...
...I fell asleep and had a dream that a king was liquidated by a group of kind faces...
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Today I am even richer.
My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of signif...