Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.

Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.

Reason must be the universal rule and guide; all things must be done according to reason without allowing oneself to be swayed by emotion.

First, all means to conciliate; failing that, all means to crush.

A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire.

If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?

Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime.

Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to condemn them to the gallows.

Deception is the knowledge of kings.

Never write a letter and never destroy one.

Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books.

Love hurts. Love is fragile. Love comes like a breath of magic, then departs leaving us feeling empty, alone, a paper cup blowing on the wind.

The malice thus becomes wholly real and the benevolence largely imaginary.

Human has the ability to believe in something wrong as if it is true.

Do not worship me, I am not God. I'm only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.

Your face makes my soul want to eat chocolate pudding!

Dancing with The Stars' is like learning a new sport with lots of bumps and bruises.

No paradox, no progress.

I dress up as a middle-aged prostitute and do a game show.

Part of the reason we like democracy is it's the portfolio of decades, which is to say you don't also get the disastrous dictator who completely destroys a society, engages you in wars and so forth.

When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.