Such, indeed, is the policy of civil war: severely to remember injuries, and to forget the most important services. Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.

And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Imam Hussain's sacrifice is for all groups and communities, an example of the path of rightousness.

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.

And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. The superstition of the people was not embittered theological rancor.

Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.

In the end, they wanted security more than they wanted freedom.

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.

We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.

Roald Amundsen says that ‘Adventure is just bad planning.’ In that case, friends, let us make more bad planning!

Sometimes we must leave our true homes for something greater to come.

That's what mild television fame is like: it's like walking through the world with your fly down.

Let your life be your argument.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

Everyone is perfectly willing to learn from unpleasant experience - if only the damage of the first lesson could be repaired.

I've always read suspense, so raising the stakes to life and death situations in my romance plots seemed natural.

The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part.

A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.

Don't make me angry-kiss you.