I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

Telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

Perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.

Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood.

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create?

Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such time takes flight and, in her absence; wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride.

If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.

Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is a seed shut up in the pod, and art without practice is nothing.

Life is beautiful so it encourages me to smile. I smile at life to make it beautiful.

We like the shadows. That's where all the power is.

Maybe it's just parenthood that puts you in a situation where you just have to develop a new attitude, I guess, about things.

Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it.

It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.

With firm faith in our hearts, to sustain us along the hard road to victory, we will find our way to a secure peace, for the ultimate benefit of all humanity.

I am just a refugee from the long slow toothache of English life. It is terrible to love life so much you can hardly breathe!

Trust your instincts, trust your judgment.

The deepest courage we can exercise is continuing to believe in our dreams until we make them come true.

When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.