As our self-interests differ, so do our feelings.

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.

The rewards of faith are beyond doubt.

You are what your record says you are.

I remember writing 'All I Want Is You' and hoping it would get me out of trouble. I haven't stopped writing songs or getting into trouble since.

Genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others happiness.

There are great science books that were conceived as books. Feynman's famous introductory lectures in physics, which have a beginning and an end, which are written with style.

If leadership is, fundamentally, about serving others, then any one person should be able to move between being a "leader" and a "follower."

Nature is the line; those who are under it, we call them as man; above it, we call them as God!

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

Science fiction is the only genre that enables African writers to envision a future from our African perspective.

I would want to get rid of the piracy.