After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.

The greater the effort, the greater the glory.

A liar is always lavish of oaths.

Self-love is the source of all our other loves.

Heaven often regulates effects by their causes, and pays the wicked what they have deserved.

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.

To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.

He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.

Time is a great manager: it arranges things well.

It was harder for the ones who were waiting, Annemarie knew. Less danger, perhaps, but more fear.

The folkish philosophy of life must succeed in bringing about that nobler age in which men no longer are concerned with breeding dogs, horses, and cats, but in elevating man himself.

All food must be capable of being digested, and that what produces digestion is warmth; that is why everything that has soul in it possesses warmth.

I resent the creation of a world in which beauty is a reminder of what we're losing rather than a celebration of what we have.

I'm not going around touring the U.S. when I've got nowhere to live.

The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.

The hero can never be a relativist.

We cannot have foreign governments interceding in our elections.

Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it.

Smoking and drinking too much is not the way to fitness. Love your body and treat it good.