Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.