Never was anything great achieved without danger.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception.

Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas in antiquity.

Is it better to be loved or feared?

In conclusion, the arms of others either fall from your back, or they weigh you down, or they bind you fast.

Fire consumes, in Prose it cripples. You'll mind the ashes that have no shoes

True contentment depends not upon what we have a tub was large enough for Diogenes but a world was too little for Alexander.

You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.

A lot of people my age are dead and you could look it up.

Jem spoke with enormous care; talking to Will about anything personal was like trying not to startle away a wild animal.

There is something that happens when we leave the land and enter the ocean. It's unexpected, the environment feels strangely welcoming. The ocean almost feels like... home.

The best kind of politics is when you help people become their own best selves.

The Secret's message is to empower people. Its message releases people from feeling like victims and gives them the knowledge to intentionally create their lives the way they want.

Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome.

A happiness that is sought for ourselves alone can never be found: for a happiness that is diminished by being shared is not big enough to make us happy.