Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.

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.

They that be born in the strength of youth are of one fashion, and they that are born in the time of age, when the womb fail, are otherwise.

There’s a fine line between trying to be everything your mate wants you to be and wanting to be loved for who you are.

We are all in trouble.... with a bunch of dead people.

When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.

The intelligent perusal of fine games cannot fail to make the reader a better player and a better judge of the play of others.

Without adversity, the butterfly would never have the strength to achieve its destiny. It would never develop the strength to become something extraordinary.

Have God make a message out of your mess.

The East and the West in the spring of the world shall blend / As a man and a woman that plight / Their troth in the warm spring night.

If you only have work clothes - the black trouser and ribbed turtleneck you got four years ago at the Gap - you're not participating in your own style personality.

Is it a form of social play that underneath the words people say, there is a different conversation going on?