The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Courage is adversity's lamp.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

We lose everything because everything remains except us. And therefore any form of posterity may be an affront, and perhaps any memory, as well.

He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.

Im looking forward to the World Cup because I believe Wayne Rooney could be one of the major finds in world football.

Feminism is about friends and sisters and community.

The whole art of the political speech is to put 'nothing' into it. It is much more difficult than it sounds.

Feminism has never been sexy, but let me assure you that it never stopped me from flirting, and I have seldom suffered from lack of men.

Family is not who's blood is in you, is who you love and who loves you

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. [Fr., Les hommes rougissent moins de leur crimes que de leurs faiblesses et de leur vanite.]

To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.

I have a huge amount of stress, but I believe stress can be a positive thing too.