It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.

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.

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.

Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.

if you give people the reasons to reason and you don't reason, reason!

He puts his arm around me, the lights dancing on his dark skin constantly skipping across to mine, planting a myriad of emotions into each pore as if preparing my heart for tilling.

It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people? It costs everything you are.

The States acceded to the Union.

It's not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.

It's very difficult for people, because when you purify yourself with love you have to merge. Anything in the world is easier to merge than two egos.

If you count all fights like everybody else does, including Rickson, who says he has 400 fights; if you count like that, I have a million.

You have to learn to read between the lies.

The good life is the best preparation for bad times.

Having the balance of a work life and a family life has been so good for me.