The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured. Unhappy they who have never been taught the art to govern them!

One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.

I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.

To a generous mind few circumstances are more afflicting than a discovery of perfidy in those whom we have trusted.

How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

There is no accounting for tastes.

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Never will I give my hand where my heart does not accompany it.

Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.

'Metals' has partly been about me regaining my self respect and I feel like I'm growing the muscles I want to grow again.

Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.

My career has sort of been characterized by taking advantage of the changes in the marketplace, sometimes by design, sometimes by accident.

Every time I come to Europe, I'm just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.

I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

Korea is an open society and we will make sure that there is no restriction on foreign investment in Korea.

If you don't give up, eventually you will break the cycle and you will overcome any obstacle.

There's a certain Englishness about the English game

Never trust an ugly woman. She's got a grudge against the world,' said Grandma who was no oil painting herself.