A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician.

Sunsets in themselves are generally superior to sunrises; but with the sunset we appreciate images drawn from departed peace and faded glory.

Artists will sometimes speak of Rome with disparagement or indifference while it is before them; but no artist ewer lived in Rome and then left it, without sighing to return.

There are no eyes so sharp as the eyes of hatred.

Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.

Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy.

A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.

Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people.

Man is an animal that cannot long be left in safety without occupation; the growth of his fallow nature is apt to run into weeds.

Many persons feel art, some understand it; but few both feel and understand it.

The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and whose means are indirect, cowardly, and treacherous.

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

Bob says hello, " He told the stars.The Argo II sailed into the night.

The lies you tell yourself. The necessary lies.

It's hard to write any good song. It seems more rewarding, or maybe just easier, to write sad ones.

Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.

I love Tokio Hotel and their music, their makeup, their hairstyles and their subtlety.

I have a special relationship with animals. I contribute to harmony and balance among all the living creatures of the earth.

Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.

Love doesn't always come in convenient packages.

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