All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule us.

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.

I prefer to do right and get no thanks than to do wrong and receive no punishment.

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

Furthermore, I think Carthage must be destroyed.

We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.

The hero saves us. Praise the hero! Now, who will save us from the hero?

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.

If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.

We must not learn to try harder. The key is to learn how not to try in the first place.

Even though I know that breaking your brain is the same as breaking your arm, I'm still ashamed that my brain is broken.

Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind, and a step that travels unlimited roads.

Britain still has the most reliably beautiful countryside of anywhere in the world. I would hate to be part of the generation that allowed that to be lost.

The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six.

I guess not being able to hear just made me adventurous and daring. And in most cases, that didn't make my parents very happy with me.

Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am.

I don't trust any camera you can't make out of wood.

Rickey was never motivated by stats. He was motivated by numbers. Wins, runs, steals.

I do six shows a week. Sometimes my voice gets tired, but I love it.