Nothing is more common than for persons to hate those whom they have injured.

In taking revenge upon our enemies, we are only even with them; in passing over their malice we are superior.

A hero in one age will be a hero in another.

What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.

When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.

We are better deceived by having some truth told us than none.

The life of a good man is a continual prayer.

The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.

The law has no power over heroes.

No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.

There is no logic like the logic of the heart.

I used to play basketball and I was pretty competitive, but I was never a bad loser. I never got angry. For me it was always about doing my best and devoting myself to a challenge.

I would much rather be hated for who I am, then loved for something that I am not.

I'm not a big reggae dude. I have maybe two other reggae albums.

I totally alienated some reporters as I retreated.

... when personal happiness conflicts with any great human ideal, the right to claim such happiness is as nothing compared to the privilege of resigning it.

A prince who is not himself wise cannot be wisely advised. . . . Good advice depends on the shrewdness of the prince who seeks it, and not the shrewdness of the prince on good advice.

I'll pick "I'm kidding" anytime over "I'm lying."

Sunday is the Lord’s Day. Let us find time to be with him.

Say your name over two hundred times and discover you are no one.

My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious.