The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.

Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.

Espresso is to Italy, what champagne is to France.

A woman will sometimes forgive the man who tries to seduce her, but never the man who misses an opportunity when offered.

Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.

Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject.

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.

I found there a country with thirty-two religions and only one sauce.

The art of putting the right men in the right places is first in the science of government; but that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult.

Only a man who has loved a woman of genius can appreciate what happiness there is in loving a fool.

My parents seemed incredibly special and outrageously handsome to me then.

Eternally the embers glow masterfully fueled by lovers passion.

Any business that is looking for new customers needs to understand the Internet and how to market their goods or services through it.

My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.

America's most dangerous export was, is and always will be our fast-food outlets.

Bragging often precedes begging.

The more delicate and ambitious the soul, the further do dreams estrange it from possible things.

Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy.

It struck me that Albania was the sort of place that might keep a man from yawning.

Keep always busy so that the devil will find you always engaged.