As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.

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.

Sometimes I've gotten photographs back and people have literally shaven off pieces of me, and I tell them to put it back.

The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that.

Scientists say the European space probe that landed on the comet has detected organic matter. This means there could be either life in space or a Whole Foods. We just don't know.

I would never have discovered alcohol.

I would love to be on Broadway!

I think I just want to make and be part of great records, because of what it brings to other people, what it gives back, is so incredible.

Political science without biography is a form of taxidermy.

Everybody’s got rights. A man tied to a bed got rights. A man down in a dungeon got rights. A little screaming baby got rights. Yeah, you got rights. What you don’t got is power.

I try to be cool, but I'm not very good at it.

We become what we love. Whatever you are giving your time and attention to, day after day, is the kind of person you will eventually become.