The leader is always alone before bad fates.

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

He who laughs last didn't get the joke.

Anyone who ever bet against you was wrong. Don’t let their opinion blind you from your reality. You were not meant to live their life

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.

Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.

Age is just a number, unless of course your trying to have a conversation with them.

Some women chasing men, and some - for dreams. If you are at a fork, remember, your career will not wake up one morning to say that more does not love you.

Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.

We actually did quite a lot of comedy on 'Xena'. The whole show was very tongue-in-cheek.

Love presses my head with carefully placed feet, wretch that he is, until he has taught me to detest chaste girls, and to live with no counsel.

Someday I might have to put down a basketball and have a regular 9-to-5 like everybody else.