Sir, what does it matter whom I serve, so long as I am right?

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.

If I save my insight, I don’t attend to weakness of eyesight.

Business owners should not have to choose between violating their faith and violating the law.

Success is when your signature becomes an autograph.

I think one thing that is extremely important is to connect with people in order to be successful and bring the people in so that they become your partners.

I'm familiar with Andrei Sakharov reputation, but I don't know his personal history at all.

You need to be disciplined and you need to try to occupy a zone of acting that is always quite scary because you don't think you're doing anything.

Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.

You get to do what you want to do – if that’s what you want to do.

My dream is to drop three atomic bombs on New York City.

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.