As great edifices collapse of their own weight, so Heaven sets a similar limit to the growth of prosperous states.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life

Poverty, the mother of manhood. Also, the mother of prostitution.

The abode of God, too, is wherever is earth and sea and air, and sky and virtue. Why further do we seek the Gods of heaven? Whatever thou dost behold and whatever thou dost touch, that is Jupiter.

As far as the stars are from the earth, and as different as fire is from water, so much do self-interest and integrity differ.

The prosperous man does not know whether he is loved.

An idle life always produces varied inclinations.

Not a stone but has its history.

There stands the shadow of a glorious name.

A crime which is the crime of many none avenge.

Thus each person by his fears gives wings to rumor, and, without any real source of apprehension, men fear what they themselves have imagined.

As long as there have been women." Mom told me, "there have been ways to punish them for being women.

The divine force within you is mightier than any mountain.

Bethyl Ann has vomited words like she ate the dictionary.

If you wished to be loved, love.

Physically stalking as opposed to Instagram stalking, which was kind of great. Leila [from Fifty Shades Darker ] puts my Insta stalking into perspective.

My petite little platinum blonde beauty of a wife suddenly turned into a public-relations dynamo. "The business is Buzz!" she proclaimed, and indeed so it became.

The spiritual life is a call to action. But it is a call to ... action without any selfish attachment to the results.

The Nazis victimized some people for what they did, some for what they refused to do, some for what they were, and some for the fact that they were.

If we build our military up to Ronald Reagan levels, [Vladimir] Putin's not going to push us anywhere because he can't match us.

Mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual.