How delicious is pleasure after torment!

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.

I cannot love, I want to be aloneI will not love, I want to be alone

If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.

I don't celebrate Valentine's Day. It gets in the way of Black History Month. Cupid didn't free any slaves.

At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late.

We want to eradicate all mud schools. We are already doing so. We are not in a hurry because no one is going to rule but the ANC.

The situation in the film is like me going out to Venice Beach and talking to a homeless guy on the boardwalk, and 13 years later he's the president.

My God, to read without joy is stupid.

Mexico is a safe, as well as a beautiful and warmly gracious, place to visit.

I never stole a joke in my life. I just find them before they're lost.

When my hair is long enough to be cut, I go to my wife's hairdresser, and she generally pays for it.