My sweetest hope is to lose hope

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.

She was the one who wanted to be with him, the one who watched and waited for him, who felt his absence badly.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

This is why we give up on things that break our heart because it requires change.

I actually started working on Madagascar before my daughter was born.

The idea of Utopia is mischievous as well as unrealistic. And dull, to boot. Man is born pushing and shoving as the sparks fly upward.

[W]ords are fine, but it has to be what a generation reads into those words.

I've never been very good at manipulating my career, but fortunately I haven't needed to.

It doesn't matter who you are, football's a business. At some stage you're going to have to leave a football club, that's just normal.

When elderly invalids meet with fellow-victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious.

I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.