Fortune reveres the brave, and overwhelms the cowardly.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.

You can end love more easily than you can moderate it.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.

Nothing is our except time.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

Make no attachment, so you can flow freely.

As president, I'm committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.

In the actual state of social relationships, the forms ("formes", Fr.) of politeness are necessary as a subsitute to benevolence.

To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.

we made love on the living room floor with the noise in the background of a televised war and in that defeaning pleasure i thought i heard someone say if we walk away they'll walk away

When you die, you don’t go to sleep. You go home to nonphysical reality, and you are very much awake.

I have an aversion to conformity.

Nothing like a puppet to give you the willies.

You know you're an Arizona native when you have to look up "mass transit" in the dictionary.

What I am looking for is a certain grace.