To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.

Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things.

Do you remember that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, "How well he spoke" but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, they said, "Let us march.

The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.

We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.

Peace in Mind will make life fine

I don't usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it's true - I'm scary.

For so long I wanted to win the gold medal.Then I won. I had to figure out what was the new motivation to take myself to that place again.

In fashion, women have more sensitivity, more sense of the body, so they know how things fit and feel. Yet there are not many women who study fashion. It's ridiculous.

I like to sing love songs.

C is not clean – the language has many gotchas and traps, and although its semantics are simple in some sense, it is not any cleaner than the assembly-language design it is based on.

I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age.

Revolutions are not push button affairs; rather, they evolve only if there exists a reservoir of hope and grievance that can be galvanized into popular action.

The Stones are not the kind of band that want to get in the details. That's why they have a producer and engineer - to pull the magic out of them and make them sound so great.

However much we hate the law, we are more afraid of grace