It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.