Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength.

Adoration isn't love. I adore Annabella, but I don't love her; and I love thee, Milicent, but I don't adore thee.

Anne Bronte

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

Bono

Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.

Abu Bakr

It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It's also a very clear path to happiness.

Sheryl Sandberg

Knowing who in fact we are results in Good Being, and Good Being results in the most appropriate kind of good doing. But good doing does not of itself result in Good Being. We can be virtuous without knowing who in fact we are. The beings who are merely good are not Good Beings; they are just pillars of society.

Aldous Huxley

If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the other side, you freeze. I try to trust that it will work out in the end.

Jennifer Connelly

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

Friedrich Nietzsche

To die hating them, that was freedom.

George Orwell

You know, I sometimes think we Sort too soon...

J.K. Rowling

You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.

Van Morrison

While many people are trying to be in tune with infinite, what they really are is in tune with the indefinite.

Eric Butterworth

Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.

Mahatma Gandhi