Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Obama better understood community organisation and peer-to-peer communication than any recent candidate, and we are applying that lesson.

Scotsmen, she had occasion to observe, often did have nice knees. Perhaps that was why they insisted upon kilts.

And the cornerstone of my economic policies, when I first got elected, was cutting taxes on everybody on who paid taxes.

Strike the enemy's settlements, turn them into dust, pave the Arab roads with the skulls of Jews.

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

I'm not invincible. I'm no Serena Williams.

I have to say, I haven't really worked with that many people in my career that I haven't liked, which I think is really rare.

I'm trying to protect you. From myself. I don't do..." he swung a finger back and forth between us"...this.

The students were staring at her in the manner of those who have heard of the species 'female' but have never expected to get this close to one.