Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.

Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?

The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

Love isn’t for the weak, it’s for those brave enough to risk it all.

I can tell you now that if you break things off with Alana, I’m gonna want to high five you in the face with a hammer before we reach New York.

The same things are best both for individuals and for states, and these are the things which the legislator ought to implant in the minds of his citizens.

An advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use public transport.

Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial

Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience.

I think a failed state is the responsibility of the people who have made that state fail, and those are generally the people of that country.

Every painting has a weakness and a breaking point, where the essence of a painting lies. In my case it is never in the centre.

Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.

I admire all people who are trying to be a good power in this chaotic world.