Confidences are always risky: a secret entrusted to a stranger make him less of one. You've given away something of yourself, given him the advantage.

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.

Truth to tell, we are all criminals if we remain silent.

It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one's own existence.

Freedom is not possible without authority - otherwise it would turn into chaos and authority is not possible without freedom - otherwise it would turn into tyranny.

All I know is that I shall be alone again. There is nothing more terrible than to be alone among human beings.

There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.

In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.

Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.

Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.

Hairdressers are professional gossips; when only the hands are busy, the tongue is seldom still.

Each arrow you shoot offcarries its own targetinto the decidedlysecrettangle

Do not humiliate people, shame is a lifetime lasting effect that can be nursed but can never be cured.

my youth, one time, that time I knew even through the nothingness, it was a celebration of something not to do but only know.

An action comitted in anger is an action doomed to failure.

It's against reason," said Filby. "What reason?" said the Time Traveller.

Northern Ireland were in white, which was quite appropriate because three inches of snow had to be cleared from the pitch before kick off

I'm very good at what I do and there's not too many people in the world that have an answer for what I can do.

My blood is no different from that of other martyrs.

It is not enough to be wise, one must be engaging.

When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "action," and which was the third, he still answered "Action.