When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.

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.

We have reached a place too dark to see, so we shall go together.

Often the deep valleys of our present will be understood only by looking back on them from the mountains of our future experience.

Success is a lot of things. In my personal life it is to have my own family with me, to give all my best to let my daughter have a better life than me, better choices.

Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose mother "worked" at anything besides raising her children.

I usually don't know how to fight hard for roles. I've certainly sent a passionate letter or two... which always leads nowhere.

Transmitted at the speed of light, all events on this planet are simultaneous. In the electric environment of information all events are simultaneous, there is no time or space separating events.

I've certainly never helped anybody save the day, in any capacity. If anybody is going to understand making a few mistakes, it's me.

When you say words a lot they don't mean anything. Or maybe they don't mean anything anyway, and we just think they do.

When you give false information you tend to restrict the freedom of choice to others.

Love is one of those things that should be so simple. You don't need to think about it and over analyze it when it's good.