Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

We fight to great disadvantage when we fight with those who have nothing to lose.

Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

Keep your eye fixed not so much on what they [people] ought in reason to do, as on what they are likely to do based on their disposition and habits.

By numberless examples it will evidently appear that human affairs are as subject to change and fluctuation as the waters of the sea agitated by the winds.

There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.

To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart.

Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways.

...be more guided by hope than fear.

I'm drawn to people who look different. I'm not exploiting. I'm not making fun of them. I'm drawn to them.

A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned

Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.

More and more, the Democrats are not merely inconsistent, wrong and/or misguided - they are the worst of all possible things you can be in Washington: irrelevant.

Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power.

Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives.

My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.

Chris Martin looks like a geography teacher.

For winning Swaraj one requires iron discipline.

If there be one man, more than another, who deserves to succeed in flying through the air, that man is Mr. Laurence Hargrave, of Sydney, New South Wales.