Gold is Caesar's treasure, man is God's; thy gold hath Caesar's image, and thou hast God's.

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.

Reason can discover things only near,--sees nothing that's above her.

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.

If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying. Walking exercises the body; praying exercises the soul; fasting cleanses both.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

O lust, thou infernal fire, whose fuel is gluttony; whose flame is pride, whose sparkles are wanton words; whose smoke is infamy; whose ashes are uncleanness; whose end is hell.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

The fountain of beauty is the heart and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.

Mercy turns her back to the unmerciful.

Mortals are odd creatures in that sense—flawed yet hopeful. One can study them through millennia and still get nowhere near full understanding of their nature.

Each book which so far is written is filled with a new thoughts... new images... new arguments... new discussions.

Distress leads to dimness.

I can't believe I wrote that many words in a row.

You grow weary of being treated as the enemy simply because you are not young anymore

I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.

Reading is seeing by proxy.

I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed.

Of course much remains to know, but we know how to learn: through scientific research.

The true work of art continues to unfold and create within the personality of the spectator. It is a continuous coming into being.