Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats.

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.

You are going to love the sports here. Snow skiing and water-skiing and rock climbing and all kinds of extreme sports. I give you full permission to hurl yourself off stuff.

[M]an is not an island, he is more like a spaghetti junction.

Love is a passionate powerful emotion

Listen to your broccoli and it will tell you how to eat it.

At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it.

Telling us what to think has evolved into telling us what to say, so telling us what to do can't be far behind.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring can return.

I wasn't accepted because I didn't accept the drug culture that most of my peers were involved in. Now it's like a locked room.

By the road to the contagious hospital under the surge of the blue mottled clouds driven from the northeast - a cold wind.