Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.