"In the master there is a servant,..." - Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.”

“Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.”

“To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.”

“And then there is the universal role of adult. When you play that role, you take yourself and life very seriously. Spontaneity, lightheartedness, and joy are not part of that role.”

“You [future first ladies] will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument.”

“The master sometimes serves, and the servant sometimes is master.”

“Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.”

“Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.”

“Everyone may be called "comrade," but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.”