Barba non facit philosophum

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "action," and which was the third, he still answered "Action.

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.

However much you possess there's someone else who has more, and you'll be fancying yourself to be short of things you need to exact extent to which you lag behind him.

My alone doesn't always feel good, but I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude

I am married but I've yet to meet my wife, and she is dead. Such is the life of a time-traveler... complicated, that is.

I love water - I'm an Aquarius, but that has nothing to do with it - and I've never been away from water in any place.

My thing has always been, sit down with me for an hour and base your judgments off that. That's all I ask. Don't go by what you read in the paper or hear in the streets.

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

You do not give preferred deals and dole out favors, lucrative favors, and government partnerships and weapons deals to your clients.

You drool when you sleep.

It hit me like a thunderbolt!

Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine.