Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.

There is nothing more beautiful than a vulnerable heart in open hands.

I remember once kissing you, your face lit by northern stars. Promising to grow old with you, and now so simply breaking the promise.

LIFE never really ends... It just changes. You never lose your loved ones, you gain guardian angels.

I helped to restore America's leadership.

I am a woman, I am a housewife, I am a government official, I've been twice a government secretary, I've been leader of a parliamentary group, I am an economist.

The supreme nobility of a Roman emperor does not consist in being a master of slaves, but in being a lord of free men, who loves freedom even in those who serve him.

You cannot make a cheap palace.

For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.

I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.