I see you are already as timid as a slave: you might as well be in love.

Either you have a rival or you don't. If you have one, you must please in order to be preferred to him, and if you don't you must still please-in order to avoid having one.

Cast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment.

I willingly allow that money does not guarantee happiness; but it must also be allowed that it makes happiness a great deal easier to achieve.

A man enjoys the happiness he feels, a woman the happiness she gives.

La vengeance est un plat qui se mange froid

Revenge is a dish that is best served cold.

Humanity is not perfect in any fashion; no more in the case of evil than in that of good. The criminal has his virtues, just as the honest man has his weaknesses.

All publicity is good publicity.

Marquise de Merteuil: I've distilled every thing to one single principle: win or die.

I assure you that the world is not so amusing as we imagined.

Sometimes poetry is a way of finding beauty in the chaos

You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture.You've got to become them."(Speaking about researching, and reading, and immersing yourself in History)

I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

Not with dreams, but with blood and with iron, Shall a nation be moulded at last.

There was a time when I was wondering about this business of going public, so I visited about a half-dozen companies in the Boston area, all of them formed by MIT faculty and all had gone public.

Coming from a barely clothed childhood as a swimmer makes me really comfortable with my body.

Persistent calling upon the name of the Lord breaks through every stronghold of the devil, for nothing is impossible with God. For Christians in these troubled times there is simply no other way.

If you are trying to balance the scales of justice and equality in all your work relationships, you're going to come up short.

Wow, I do have all day and I get to choose.

I also think that Germany helped me with my aggressiveness.