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

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

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.

...be more guided by hope than fear.

My former identity was lying around, somewhere, fragmented and buried, like shards from an earlier civilization.

God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don't.

When God calls a man He entrust something to him

Liu Fang is a truly gifted, world-famous player of the pipa and the guzheng, classical Chinese stringed instruments.

I should get a few ribs taken out, because I'll be in a corset for the rest of my life.

A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.

Nicolas Anelka left Arsenal for £23 million and they built a training ground on him.

At either end of any food chain you find a biological system-a patch of soil, a human body-and the health of one is connected-literally-to the health of the other.

To me, the advantage of the recorder is that it is so natural. I love the fact that it is just a piece of wood, that there are almost no mechanics involved.

People are dream killers--you've got to be careful who you give emotional access to.