The vine that has been made to bear fruit in the spring, withers and dies before autumn.

It should be remembered that the foundation of the social contract is property; and its first condition, that every one should be maintained in the peaceful possession of what belongs to him.

The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force.

Men always love what is good or what they find good; it is in judging what is good that they go wrong.

The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.

The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who has had the greatest sensibility of life.

Every artist loves applause. The praise of his contemporaries is the most valuable part of his recompense.

To reign by opinion, begin by trampling it under your feet.

The Catholic must adopt the decision handed down to him; the Protestant must learn to decide for himself.

Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it.

Truth is no road to fortune.

The years stretched before her, a long and dusty way, yet if she could walk humbly along it she might find that life, unfolding slowly, keeps its best secrets till the end.

There's "good" in all things. You just have to find it.

You don't go into battle because you're sure of victory. You go into battle because it's the right thing to do.

I'm pretty boring. I consider myself not a celebrity. I'm a normal person that sings on stage.

I think it's necessary to keep moving forward. I've always said that nostalgia is death, really for anyone creative.

The idea of going on a spiritual journey is really part of the DNA of India itself.

People think that mathematics is complicated. Mathematics is the simple bit, it’s the stuff we CAN understand. It’s cats that are complicated.

To succeed at the level I want to you have to be focused and serious.

Seriously, I don’t care if feminists hunt me down and burn me at the stake, that man crooked his finger at me, I’d follow him into a bank and rob it at his side.

They say learning to love yourself, Is the first step, That you take when you want to be real...