All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

It is never too late to be wise.

Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

Justice is always Violence to the Party offending, for every Man is Innocent in his own Eyes.

Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

The best of men cannot suspend their fate; The good die early, and the bad die late.

The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm without.

Pride, the first peer and president of Hell.

Silence is the mother of all tongues

Humility is a virtue that one can find, in which God in heaven rejoices, and in His love he enfolds you, close to his heart He does bind.

What Douglas had once seen as the attractive over-confidence of youth, now looked more like unyielding selfishness.

I operate the camera, I always do it when I'm the director, and I like to approach it as a documentary, finding the images based on what happens, as it happens.

When you start to beat yourself up, remind yourself of how worthy you are of love.

If I'm left to my own devices, I will be tempted to make the most unlistenable music possible.

I don't watch many comic-book movies. But I loved 'Sin City.'

Clemency is the surest proof of a true monarch. [Fr., La clemence est la plus belle marque Qui fasse a l'univers connaitre un vrai monqrque.]

We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or upon the theory that the past is simply a reflection of the present

I would define boastfulness to be the pretension to good which the boaster does not possess.