Rome, if you do not wish me to betray you, make enemies that I can hate!

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 main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.

It's human to make mistakes and some of us are more human than others.

I [give] maybe the long-winded speeches that not everybody reads, but I can also do a slow jam on Jimmy Fallon better than most.

Some of the highest vibratory places one can visit have become very expensive. They are the domains of the rich. The rich figured out a long time ago that certain neighborhoods have more power.

Look closely. The beautiful may be small.

Our family was very fond of the University of Iowa. We thought it was a good place to go.

[When I photograph] I project what I'm not. What I would like to be.

Undoubtedly Internet has reduced the possibilities of taxation. Why should I buy something here if I can buy it from a company in Japan or England or Brazil with a lower tax?

My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art.