He that is rich is wise.

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.

I even fold this mans underwear and I like it!

Our national security is at risk when we rely on foreign oil to keep our economy moving forward.

I believe that one of the characteristics of the human race, possibly the one that is primarily responsible for its course of evolution, is that it has grown by creatively responding to failure.

I was lucky to receive help at the beginning of my career and now I want to help other writers as much as I can.

You can't receive forgiveness unless you let God deal with your deceit.

Utter truth is essential...and to get that truth may take a lot of searching and long hours.

I've had training in electronics engineering, of all things, and in languages. But I've never taken any degree, something I share with Lewis Mumford, I think.

You meet someone and it’s so much more than meeting them. It’s so much bigger and it’s like you’re enchanted by them.

When love could teach a monarch to be wise, And gospel-light first dawn'd from Bullen's eyes.

I've sucked way too much cement for this year. Bad juju rising off them city sidewalks. I need to babble with a brook or two, inhale starlight, make friends with some trees.