Success generally depends upon knowing how long it takes to succeed.

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

The less men think, the more they talk.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.

You never can tell about these mild-mannered boys.

It struck me then how much the past - not just the past but history and family - was like the ocean tide. It was always the same ocean, but the waves made it fresh and new each time.

Love can touch us one time And last for a life time And never let go till We're gone.

Ah me son, we don't be takin' nothin' from the sea. We has to sneak up on what we wants and wiggle it away

If you try too carefully to plan your life, the danger is that you will succeed-succeed in narrowing your options, closing off avenues of adventure that cannot now be imagined.

Too much of our political debate...has become a race to the bottom. An exchange of insults and slanders more appropriate to reality television than a legislature.

I learned there's a big difference between juniors and the pros.

When the taste changes with every bite and the last bite tastes as good as the first, that's Cajun.

It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.

China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is a disservice to itself.