"It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent."

"There is no glory in otustripping donkeys."

"Virtue extends our days: he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure."

"Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men."

"The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things."

"Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst."

"It is a primitive form of thought that things exist or do not exist."

"In a true zero-defects approach, there are no unimportant items."

"It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts."

"I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest."

"The people are that part of the state that does now know what it wants."

"What we do is less than a drop in the ocean. But if it were missing, the ocean would lack something."