It matters more how one gives than what one gives

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.

There are two levers for moving man -- interest and fear.

You must go deeper into Russia - 150 kilometres from Moscow or more, and look there. The kids are fed with cattle feed - people don't get paid for half a year.

So while you're trying to improvise, you're also trying to puppeteer, you're doing everything that you need to do to perform a puppet in our style, for a camera.

Yeah,there was a whole chapter on you in my eight grade History of Angels textbook," Miles said. Arriane clapped. "And they told me that book was banned!

The worst nightmare in the world is a radical Islamic regime with a weapon of mass destruction.

Most people probably assume that Hristo is a grumpy, stubborn guy... That can't be further from the truth. He's a cheerful, candid person that never holds a grudge.

I sing about UFOs and extraterrestrials, and so I designed a UFO fashion. It includes science-fiction bikinis and Bermuda Triangle shorts.

The friendship which is to be practised or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power ceases of delighting each other.

You ought to have a perspective when you're making a film.

France generates a significant part of its energy requirements from fission reactors and these have achieved a perfect safety record. We build ours all differently.