To relinquish a present good through apprehension of a future evil is in most instances unwise ... from a fear which may afterwards turn out groundless, you lost the good that lay within your grasp.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

We fight to great disadvantage when we fight with those who have nothing to lose.

Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

Keep your eye fixed not so much on what they [people] ought in reason to do, as on what they are likely to do based on their disposition and habits.

By numberless examples it will evidently appear that human affairs are as subject to change and fluctuation as the waters of the sea agitated by the winds.

There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.

To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart.

Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways.

Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.

I'm too young, too smart and too good-looking to die.

I never have tantrums. If anything makes me mad, I'm silent. If I'm not talking, leave me alone.

I tried several things and this was the only one I enjoyed doing.

Human beings will believe in all kinds of things that aren't true, and that's okay. And TV is a part of that.

Unless an action is rightly thought out and its steps rightly planned, every stage of its performance will probably remain vague and therefore unsatisfactory for the doer and all those concerned.

It's okay to be sad. Everyone gets sad now and then. Even me.

It's better to be controversial for the right reasons, than to be popular for the wrong reasons.

Happiness and success in life are not the result of what we have, but rather of how we live. What we do with the things we have makes the biggest difference in the quality of life.

No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche.

From beasts we scorn as soulless, In forest, field and den, The cry goes up to witness The soulessness of men