Hannibal Roti Quotes & Sayings

When everyone feels free to tell you the truth, respect for you dwindles ... A wise prince should take another course: choose wise men for your advisors, and allow only them the liberty of speaking the truth to the prince, and only on matters about which you ask, and nothing else. But you should question them about everything, listen patiently to their opinions, then form your own conclusions later. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Every extreme attitude is a fight from the self. — Eric Hoffer

Western Nebraska is the only place in all my travels where I have seen the dust blowing and the rain falling at the same time. — Poe Ballantine

My father reminds me that according to Midrash - the ever-evolving commentary upon the Hebrew scriptures - when you arrive in the world as a baby, your hands are clenched, as though to say, "Everything is mine. I will inherit it all." When you depart from the world, your hands are open, as though to say, "I have acquired nothing from the world. — David Shields

I've had experiences that, you know, really couldn't be replaced. — Elizabeth Edwards

People forget that Mozart wrote for commissions. There's a thing in psychology where they think if it's popular, it can't be serious. — Anthony Hopkins