In politics, nothing is contemptible.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.

As the sun rose I could see Etna, a truncated cone with a plume of smoke over it like the quill of a pen stuck in a pewter inkpot, rising out of the haze to the north of where I was treading water.

It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage...

A good teacher is like a good artist. They go right to the most difficult part of whatever's going on.

The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.

Moreover, if the territorial state is to continue as the last word in the development of society, then war is inevitable.

Cosmetic surgery and the ideology of self-improvement may have made women's hope for legal recourse to justice obsolete.

I have seen the breakups between people who love each other and rush into getting married too quickly and I do not want to make that mistake.

People feel completely anonymous online. They can say whatever they want, do whatever they want, why not go the next step and kill people through the Internet?

The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.