"Îmi placi, chipul tău mă aţâţă... Ehei! Te-oi lua dar cu sila, chiar dacă nu vrei!" - O, tată, acuma mă strânge-nzecit, Al ielelor rege nespus m-a rănit!

Dar cine goneşte prin noapte şi vânt? Un tată călare cu fiul plăpând. În braţe îşi ţine copilul cuprins Şi braţul se strânge mai cald, într-adins.

- Obrazul, copile, de ce ţi-l fereşti? - O, tată, pe-al ielelor rege-l zăreşti? Tu nu-i vezi cununa şi coada de vrac? - Sunt neguri copile, ce-n vânt se desfac.

"O, dragă băiete, cu mine nu vii?... În jocuri voioase juca-vom zglobii! Flori multe, pestriţe, se-nşiră pe plaur, Iar maică-mea are veşminte de aur!"

- O, tată, o, tată, chiar el mi-a şoptit, Al ielelor rege mi-a făgăduit... - Te-alină, copile, ascultă-mi cuvântul, Prin frunze uscate doar freamătă vântul!

"Vrei, dragă băiete, cu mine să vii? Fecioarele mele cu drag te-or sluji, Fecioarele mele în noapte-or cânta, În dansuri şi jocuri te vor legăna!"

- O, tată, în preajmă-ţi să vezi tu nu ştii? Sunt iele, crăiese, pe plaiuri pustii. - Iubite copile, privesc în zadar, Sunt surele sălcii, cu frunzetul rar...

Părintele-n tremuri se-ntrece gonind, Mai strâns prinde-n braţe copilul gemând; Ajunge acasă de trudă învins, În braţele sale copilul s-a stins.

We are the laws of chemistry and physics as they have played out here on Earth, and we are now learning that planets are as common as stars. Most stars, as it turns out now, will have planets.

In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

All things are created twice; first mentally; then physically. The key to creativity is to begin with the end in mind, with a vision and a blue print of the desired result.

I hope that as the Senate and the American people learn more about me they will see that I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences.

I was always just so feminine. I don't think anyone who ever met me would describe me as a man.

I dont have a kid but I think that I would be a good father especially if my baby liked to go out drinking.

Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.

You can put your boots in the oven but that doesnt make them biscuits.

Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie actor playing opposite a chimpanzee, for heaven's sake. They think Reagan is too naive, too innocent, to grasp the intellectual complexities of cold war strategy.

Large-scale public projects require the agreement of large numbers of people.

If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infants life she will choose to save the infants life without even considering if there is a man on base.

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.

Not only did God deliver me from the bondage of alcoholism, he also blessed my family financially because of my commitment to honor what he had done for me and for not doing what I believed could possibly be destructive to others.

My style is Edie Sedgwick meets Grace Jones, or Audrey Hepburn meets Salt 'n' Pepa. Strong and feisty but still classic.

When an executive walked on our floor, it was at their own risk. As far as what others thought of working for me, I know I was very tough at times, and would storm down the hall after watching some bad animation from Korea. But overall, I feel we had a good time.

I want to affect culture. I want to have my mark on everything. I give examples of people like Bill Cosby, Quincy Jones - those are the people who I look up to. The game wouldn't be the same without them. What happens in the course of 5 years isn't really important to me. I care about what they'll say about me in 50 years.

You always hear how female artists don't get along, how they hate each other - but that hasn't been my experience.

I remember being away somewhere, and I had forgotten it was Valentine's Day with a person, and that was very embarrassing.

Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next.

We absolutely have to restrain concentrations of wealth in industry from spoiling the situation for everybody.

I do not subscribe to the doctrine that the people are the slaves and property of their government. I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.

Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.

Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go.