at Florence which included diplomatic missions to various European courts. Imprisoned

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

Is it better to be loved or feared?

In conclusion, the arms of others either fall from your back, or they weigh you down, or they bind you fast.

Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil.

It is necessary for a prince wishing to hold his own to know how to do wrong, and to make use of it or not according to necessity.

There are many who think a wise prince ought, when he has the chance, to foment astutely some enmity, so that by suppressing it he will augment his greatness.

Armour belonging to someone else either chops off you or weighs you down or is too tight

I love swimming, tennis, and I am taking up golf. I am not serious about it, I just go to the range and practice. Other than that, I enjoy going to the movies and hanging out with my friends.

I used to play Donna Karan. I used my dad's home office, and Kim was my assistant. Then one of our friends would play a buyer, and I would take her to my mom's closet and show her the new collection.

Things are what they are and there's no point dwelling in the past or wondering what could have been.

Society, by insisting on conventions, has merely insisted on certain convenient signs by which we may know that a man is considering, in daily life, the comfort of other people.

It will all work out in the end. You must keep faith in yourself, and leave the rest to God.

One can overlook stupidity, until it evolves into malice.

For a couple of years, I focused more on producing because I wanted to be close to home, after traveling a lot for work.

Responding to climate change will become the obsession of the next decade in much the same way terrorism was this decade's obsession.

I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus.