Do nothing immoderate.

If you confer a benefit, never remember it; if you receive one, never forget it.

Do not let one's tongue outrun one's sense.

Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.

If one is strong be also merciful, so that one's neighbors may respect one rather than fear one.

A youthful age is desirable, but aged youth is troublesome and grievous.

What is difficult? To keep a secret, to employ leisure well, to be able to bear an injury.

Do not make too much haste on one's road.

As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries men.

The tongue should not be suffered to outrun the mind.

Learn how to regulate one's own house well.

Well, I grew up as a democrat.

I've been hated by many, wanted by plenty, disliked by some, but confronted by none.

I wish all men were like dogs.

As oil will find its way into crevices where water cannot penetrate, so song will find its way where speech can no longer enter.

Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all.

Although my dad Harry is the manager of West Ham, we get on very well.

Writers are not mere copyists of language; they are polishers, embellishers, perfecters. They spend hours getting the timing right so that what they write sounds completely unrehearsed.

The vast majority of the world knows there's no reason to circumcise. Someone should tell the doctors.

I am a woman, and sometimes that impacts what stories I want to do.

Bill Clinton was in the line of great progressive presidents who faced the realities in his own time and applied innovative solutions to problems.