Kindness acts Not always as you think; a hated hand Renders it odious.

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.

The luckiest generation in a country is always the one which has never went through any war in their lifetimes!

Either war is obsolete or men are.

We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.

Why is taste, the crudest of our senses, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other senses?

I think people who come into my home feel comfortable and welcome and loved. And the biggest thing in my living room (the fireplace) is in and of itself an expression of love.

I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.

Do thine own work, and know thyself.

It is not far-fetched to draw a line from Operation Ajax through the Shah's repressive regime and the Islamic Revolution to the fireballs that engulfed the World Trade Center in New York.

Real fear is like intense pain. It's there to warn you something's truly wrong.

The one I can't imagine anyone taking seriously, but was one of my favorites, was the mesh football jersey top, paired with a really short pair of athletic shorts.