I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.

If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something out of them, otherwise you'll come home to me with a full belly and an empty purse.

I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry themselves about style, and so cease to be themselves. Without a master, without a model, without a guide, I go to work and earn my living, my well-being and my fame.

Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood.

What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we!

Why should the eyes be denied what delights them most?

With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of a courtesan; it may be so, but I have the heart of a King. I live free, I enjoy myself, I can call myself happy.

I am indeed a king because I know how to rule myself.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure because of all the things granted us by wisdom none is greater or better than friendship.

Life is a toy made of glass; it appears to be of inestimable price, but in reality it is very cheap.

Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So love the people who treat you right and forget about the ones who don’t.

I think it's the same simple thing for everyone - to be happy, and have love in your life.

I've never been good with deadlines. My early novels, I wrote by myself. No one knew I was writing a novel; I didn't have a contract.

If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately.

An actor equals, sometimes, an entitled baby. People take care of things for me, and they pay greater attention to things than I was ever capable of doing. But in the last few years, I have learned a great deal more about taking care of things. I pay my own bills now.

A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.

There is something to be said for people who have to work hard, be creative, produce what they have with little - or no - means. Those of us from poor homes have the advantage of thinking for ourselves and of knowing that when times get hard, things could always be worse.

There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights.

My mother loved entertaining, and I've followed suit, so we have big celebrations for New Year, Passover, Thanksgiving and birthdays.

I think politicians nationwide have earned a reputation sometimes that is very unfavorable because they will say things and then do something else when they get into office.

I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative ones.

I am about as detailed as a shadow.

I am currently doing about 30 charity auctions a year.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I believe in two eyes for an eye.

The product is the delivery of the largest number of people at the least cost.

When one is required to preside over the Church, and be entrusted with the care of so many souls, the whole female sex must retire before the magnitude of the task, and the majority of men also.

What happens is that people who are very religious but who are not in touch with reality, cannot be spiritual.

People were so keen to get investment. In those days, there was quite significant unemployment in Northern Ireland, and that had been the general pattern in Northern Ireland for many, many years.

The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants.

Ever since I've been 16, 15, that's all I've been doing: playing darts.

Nudity is not vulgar, else we were not born nude.

Interest blinds some people, and enlightens others.

As a dancer I've always checked my body constantly; 'Am I having a good day or am I having a fat day?'