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

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.

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.

...be more guided by hope than fear.

Police officers are among the most corrupt people that I have encountered in life.

When you are no longer afraid is when you can be yourself.

Change is easy. Improvement is far more difficult

There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.

The morning pouring everywhere, its golden glory on the air.

In love-making, as in other arts, those who do it best cannot tell how it is done.

It's my body, and it should be my choice, and the fact that it is not my choice is absolutely disgusting.

I've done all the dumping, which is not a good thing. It's funny, because I married someone who has always done it as well. I believe I met my match.

I go to gyms quite a bit, martial arts gyms, MMA gyms. I try to train with the best people, with who's who in the martial arts, just to keep myself sharp.

I wear a hat on stage so that people won't be blinded by the reflection from my head. Also, if I don't wear a hat, there's no way that the hat can be at that level by itself on the stage.