Self-love is the source of all our other loves.

The greater the effort, the greater the glory.

A liar is always lavish of oaths.

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.

The man who pardons easily courts injury.

I am always a competitor and my wife and son have never seen me wrestle.

If I knocked and waited at every door, who knows what I might miss?

I read a lot of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I love 'Tender is the Night,' and its atmosphere of doomed romance. He was one of the greatest prose stylists, with a wonderfully clear but lyrical quality.

In the history of science it has often happened that the majority was wrong and refused to listen to a minority that later turned out to be right.

We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people - the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world.

And what I don't understand I grasp it only when it's too late.

2010 is not just a choice between Republicans and Democrats. 2010 is not just a choice between liberals and conservatives. 2010 is a referendum on the very identity of our nation.

At one point in my life, I was very involved with social causes. I'm still involved, but now I have a family and it's important to me.

I am still the person who would have died rather than kill you

I send you Love and all Green Lights