Folded hands may conceal a dagger --Likewise a foe's tears.

It is compassion, the most gracious of virtues, Which moves the world.

Make foes of bowmen if you must, Never of penmen.

Great wealth, like a crowd at a concert, Gathers and melts.

Those who have wisdom have all:Fools with all have nothing.

I never saw Death before, and now I seeThat it is warring eyes in a woman's form.

When the rare chance comes, seize itTo do the rare deed.

It is politics to please and hoodwink thoseWho flatter but despise us.

Those are fools however learnedWho have not learned to walk with the world.

Fame is a jealous mistressAnd will brook no rival.

The immoral can no more earn respectThan the envious be rich.

What makes you different is the exact thing that makes you irreplaceable.

If you go through life expecting nothing chances are you'll be content most of the time.

These things happen.

The most important truth we tell is the truth we tell ourselves.

The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its subtle relations to our own past.

We need intelligence services to fight against terrorism, but they have to respect the principles of good relationships between allies and protect personal, confidential data.

When the passage "All men are born free and equal," when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?

Pagford, which by night was no more than a cluster of twinkling lights in a dark hollow far below, was emerging into chilly sunlight.

I just want to do movies, and I want to sell them. I don't want to link up with some product.

I'm the one by the backdoor - I am not the one in the middle of the party.