God provides the wind, but man must raise the sails.
The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve.
Be at peace with yourself first and then you will be able to bring peace to others.
Stop following someone else's path, find your own.
Death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked.
Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.
Enthusiasm spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
History shows that there are no invincible armies and that there never have been.
If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
Peace begins with a smile.
Danger is next neighbour to security.
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort; it's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.
There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.
Man is designed as a perfect device. However, some copies behave as if the manufacturer has forgotten to connect them with all the circuits.
Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.
Humour is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it.
If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.
Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.
It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.
The truth is not always the same as the majority decision.
Time spent with cats is never wasted.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Courage is grace under pressure.
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.
The word listen contains the same letters as the word silent.
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
It always helps to know the answer when you are working toward the solution of a problem.
American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
Those who fled will fight another time.
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.
