To be brave one short instant is no easy matter it is easier to die for a cause than to live for it.

We often make people pay dearly for what we think we give them.

The best way to find out if a man has done something is to advise him to do it. He will not be able to resist boasting that he has done it without being advised.

Prejudices are the refuge of those who cannot think for themselves.

You should only confide your secrets to someone who has not tried to guess them.

Doubt is a necessity of the mind, faith of the heart.

Doubt is a necessity of the mind faith of the heart.

Gratitude weighs heavy on us only when we no longer feel it.

Parents are friends that life gives us friends are parents that the heart chooses.

It is unfair to hold people responsible for our illusions of them.

Of all feats of skill the most difficult is that of being honest.

How muchI want you, I don't know.

I still think about the writers I loved when I was a kid.

You have the clean canvas of a whole week before you. Paint well.

One of the great joys of falling in love is the feeling that the most extraordinary person in the entire world has chosen you.

In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.

What signifies sadness, sir; a man grows lean on it.

Two-thirds of all the strifes, quarrels, and lawsuits in the world arise from one simple cause-money.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web... Now even my cat has its own page.

As long as there's a few farmers out there, we'll keep fighting for them.