Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.

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.

And the sun and the moon sometimes argue over who will tuck me in at night. If you think I am having more fun than anyone on this planet, you are absolutely correct.

Even if you're not doing anything wrong, you are being watched and recorded.

I assure you we'll go on making our decisions without worrying whether it pleases or displeases the Soviet Union, China, America, France, or anyone else.

I hated myself for going, why couldn't I be the kind of person who stays?

I had never worked in that environment where you're able to play.

Let me die still loving, and so, never die.

i'm sorry she never got her miracle. she did get her miracle, Landon, her miracle was you.

One of the most intuitive nature writers of our recently past century, Peter Matthiessen, lends a poets voice to the desperate effort to save the tiger.

It's the reason the United States fell into the Patriot Act - because they were reacting.

We do not sit as a super-legislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.