Intentions

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while

The great question - which I have not been able to answer - is: "What does a woman want?"

Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them

One should eat to live, not live to eat

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer

Men are born to succeed, not to fail

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them

In plain words, chaos was the law of nature, order was the dream of man.”

He who loves his enemies betrays his friends; this surely is not what Jesus meant.

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend