Tact is good taste in action.

Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain.

It is easier to die for a cause than to live for it.

Men at any age truly never grow up. All, no matter what importance they may have attained, are still no more than little boys.

Old age appears hideous to us until we have to choose between it and death.

Calumny is like counterfeit money; many people who would not coin it circulate it without qualms.

The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women's.

It is easier to win love than to keep it.

To have a good enemy, choose a friend; he knows where to strike.

We only make a dupe of the friend whose advice we ask, for we never tell him all; and it is usually what we have left unsaid that decides our conduct.

It is only love that has already fallen sick that is killed by absence.

You learn from mistakes so the best leaders are constantly making new mistakes on their success journey.

[On being told Mary, Queen of Scots, was taller than she:] Then she is too high, for I myself am neither too high nor too low.

Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized.

I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.

Our exile organizations have been our way of replacing the cities and villages we have lost.

A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.

I keep a close watch on this heart of mine I keep my eyes wide open all the time I keep the ends out for the tie that binds Because you're mine, I walk the line.

I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.

If you want something done right, just forget it.

Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.