Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare. [Lat., Devine, si tu peux, et choisis, si tu l'oses.]

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 only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mindabout nothing -- to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

Success is focusing on your A-list. Success is thinking profits. Success is doing only what works. Success is easier when you tread the path that leads to success

I do need a bit of a trim but I'm a bit nervous about getting it cut

We'll build new ties of trade and of commerce, culture and education that unleash the potential of the Iraqi people.

A sanctity hangs about the sources of our being, whether physical, social, or imaginary.

Used to be in the old days, only the pulp writers wrote like machines. Now everybody is expected to be literary John Henrys. So in that context someone like me is an anomaly.

As a songwriter there's nothing more exciting than the unknown, the new and different.

I can't advise any of the young ones, because I don't know what their background was, but I would suggest that anyone who wants to be famous more than anything - there's a problem.

He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.

The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed to health food.