Keep your eye fixed not so much on what they [people] ought in reason to do, as on what they are likely to do based on their disposition and habits.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

We fight to great disadvantage when we fight with those who have nothing to lose.

Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

By numberless examples it will evidently appear that human affairs are as subject to change and fluctuation as the waters of the sea agitated by the winds.

There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.

To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart.

Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways.

Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.

...be more guided by hope than fear.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

People in Sweden are very conscious of what people are saying about you.

Let them hate me, so long as they fear me.

California: Sunny nutland.

Not seeing rivers is also another way of dying.

I think history is inextricably linked to identity. If you don't know your history, if you don't know your family, who are you?

I'm not sure how anyone with a soul can make jokes about the passing of one of the most talented artists this generation will see.

I have to say I've been pretty lucky in that my French fry indulgences don't really affect my skin. I keep a stable routine.

There’s no greater search than that of lost love.