Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.

The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure

The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.

If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.

In valor there is hope.

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.

The most seditious is the most cowardly.

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

I write fiction""What’s fiction?""Fiction is an improvement on life.

Challenge quandary thinking, either/or thinking come by moving from the abstract to the concrete. What can we do with the choice actually in front of us?

If you've got love you've got life, if you can love you can live.

Lost - yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.

When you're young, you're very insecure. And if I could learn, if I could revisit my own past I could say to myself, don't think too much, just get on and do it.

Oh, everything looks bad if you remember it.

Cycling is not rocket science.

The thing I realized this last few days is that the earth is a big place.

Upon consideration of the central question of the moon's toughness there can be little doubt. It is hella tough.

What I like is natural music. It's like I was born with a gift to do something naturally, which I have no choice but to followup on.