Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.

Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things.

Do you remember that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, "How well he spoke" but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, they said, "Let us march.

The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.

We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.

I write things down because my thoughts get too heavy in my head and it hurts my neck.

It isn't just children who need heros.

Peace becomes a fantasy when egos are promoted and facts distorted.

We pray for a messenger from God—who knows but what the messenger also prayed for a place to take his message?

I just love Rome. It really does cast a spell on you.

I liked the humor of it, I've always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality

There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all.

People sometimes, they just stop because they see this scope movie. They say "oh, this is a real movie, this is not a TV movie."

Percy yelled. "What's going- Gah! Shrimpzilla!

The two poles could sooner meet, than the love of Christ and the love of the world.