Not the least of the qualities that go into the making of a great ruler is the ability of letting others serve him.

Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.

Reason must be the universal rule and guide; all things must be done according to reason without allowing oneself to be swayed by emotion.

Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.

First, all means to conciliate; failing that, all means to crush.

A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire.

If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?

Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime.

Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to condemn them to the gallows.

Deception is the knowledge of kings.

Never write a letter and never destroy one.

All we do is sleep, and eat and lay around and make love. We're like slugs. Slug-love, I call it.

I am the happiest soul.

Never marry someone in hope that they'll change later.

We would not be enjoying those cellphones and those tablets at the price where they are had it not been for globalization, both in terms of trade and in terms of constant technological innovation.

I think pressure is a good thing and it's good to be able to feel it and use it and experience the feeling of it and especially if you can get past it.

We really need to get it together here. I think we humans are so brilliant and creative, can't we try something else?

Making movies is just as much of a game. They say Hollywood is like high school with money.

We must continue to have voting rights in the state, not to politicize this, but they must have a voice in the rebuilding effort in the community from which they have been displaced.

To a suicide: You just poisoned the wrong person.

You must ask for what you really want. / Don't go back to sleep. / The door is round and open. / Don't go back to sleep.