We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

The greater the effort, the greater the glory.

A liar is always lavish of oaths.

Self-love is the source of all our other loves.

Heaven often regulates effects by their causes, and pays the wicked what they have deserved.

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.

To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.

He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.

Time is a great manager: it arranges things well.

It is such a terrifying thing to see a man cry.

The most radical and far-reaching solutions often need rethinking of processes and deep questioning of the status quo-and these are hard.

Researching books gets you into nothing but trouble.

How can you be in love with someone for forever and not be willing to take a chance when it finally hits you in the face like a linebacker?

Life is like a parachute jump, you've got to get it right the first time.

I only enjoy legs day! For my training, it's sort of vital and I've learned to love it, I think.

The trans fat label has been an enormous incentive for food companies to take trans fat out of their products.

In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history.

Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events, just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.

Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree.