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.

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.

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.

Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.

...be more guided by hope than fear.

Collaborating on a film script involves two people sitting in a room separated by the silence of two minds working together.

Leave not a foot of verse, a foot of stone, A Page, a Grave, that they can call their own; But spread, my sons, your glory thin or thick, On passive paper, or on solid brick.

We in America count on the profit motive to get people to do the right thing. That's our basic American notion when it comes to business.

Time is not an empirical concept. For neither co-existence nor succession would be perceived by us, if the representation of time did not exist as a foundation a priori.

Aphorisms know the angles, but not the structure.

I definitely like to be natural and more relaxed and not wear a lot of makeup.

I've been very lucky in this second marriage. It's just luck. It's absolute luck. And I can only marvel at it. So many other things could have happened that didn't, so overall I feel blessed.

I was angry at my parents when I had to have brain surgery, that they weren't still around, because no matter how old you are you want you parents when you're going through something like that.

We insist on near perfection in everyone except ourselves. But if our course is questioned we become offended.

He was old and wise, which meant tired and disappointed.