For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

It is never too late to be wise.

Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

Justice is always Violence to the Party offending, for every Man is Innocent in his own Eyes.

Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

The best of men cannot suspend their fate; The good die early, and the bad die late.

The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm without.

Rise in mighty strength and live your dream.

Cause channeled in the wrong direction is indistinguishable from handcap

Changes are not unusual - I mean, most movies, when they release them, they make changes. But somehow, when I make the slightest change, everybody thinks it's the end of the world.

I keep on working when other people are out having fun. But I love what I do and find it hard to stop.

They were the first Westerners. The spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery; and the place of the Greeks is in the modern world.

If you try desperately to hang on to something that used to be a success for you, it's going to go away. You have to change.

Literally, I see my writing as transcription - a transcription of what I see, hear, think, live.

That's one of the good things about music. You get to do it live, where you can touch the people and interact with them.

Be thankful for it all. And beyond your many blessings, will be many, many more.

The law is not a series of calculating machines where answers come tumbling out when the right levers are pushed.