To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure

The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.

If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.

In valor there is hope.

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.

The most seditious is the most cowardly.

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.

To prevent your time from just melting into vanity, you must race against time and stand in the way of time so you could convert it to tangible products.

Whatever confronts your faith can be a test but if it stands to oppose the content of your personality and the validity of your convictions then it's threat.

Can I try something?" I said. "If you dont' like it, I'll stop.

To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle. I have adopted the technique of living life miracle to miracle.

Before music there was silence and the duet format allows you to build from the silence in a very special way.

A horse gallops with his lungs, perseveres with his heart, and wins with his character.

Breakthrough happened around me when breakup happened within me.

All of us, whether or not we're celebrities, every one ought to spend part of their life making someone else's life better.

Even Doctors Without Borders in West Africa are moving the fatality rate from 50 percent down to 30 percent-I bet we can do substantially better than that here.