Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes a fool of him.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many.

One ungrateful person does an injury to all needy people.

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.

Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.

A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.

Never promise more than you can perform.

If a pleasure lasts forever, it isn’t a pleasure anymore.

Take it from an old cadaver. Let go of the past.

Evil grows when good people do and say nothing.

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.

Rather than being a luxury, emotions are a very intelligent way of driving an organism toward certain outcomes.

I've always said that the only thing a photograph is good at capturing faithfully is another flat surface.

That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find out.

Humans are basically good. That's why it takes so much training to march march march kill kill kill kill.

In life two negatives don't make a positive. Double negatives turn positive only in math and formal logic. In life things just get worse and worse and worse.

And no, we don't know where it will lead. We just know there's something much bigger than any of us here.