The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies.

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.

Formality is sufficiently revenged upon the world for being so unreasonably laughed at; it is destroyed, it is true, but it hath the spiteful satisfaction of seeing everything destroyed with it.

The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have

I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men in the world.

The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.

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!

It's not my goal to be a leader or spokesperson, or anything like that.

Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.

I wanted to show that women are empowered and strong, and don't have to be saved by some male hero, but they can take care of themselves using their intelligence and their power.

Everyone went crazy over Wayne Rooney, but I get more excited by Cristiano Ronaldo.

The only new thing is history we don't know.

I gotta new strategy it's called no strategy. And I gotta way to sell more music its called make better music.

I guess you could say I'm what this country is all about.

The conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice... must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession.

Talking about your troubles is no good. Eighty percent of your friends don't care and the rest are glad.