You can't get back to power by defining your project in negative terms. But it helps to have somebody in office who represents the opposite of what you believe.
The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself.
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon.
If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.
To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.
Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.
Rugrats was my favorite cartoon growing up as a kid.
Being a singer now I have to get all fussy. . . I must have my ginger and lemon and all that.
There is something about being people from your home country in a different country. It bonds you together.
There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.