He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.

The greater the effort, the greater the glory.

A liar is always lavish of oaths.

Self-love is the source of all our other loves.

Heaven often regulates effects by their causes, and pays the wicked what they have deserved.

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.

To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.

He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.

Time is a great manager: it arranges things well.

The anti-resource curse initiative has stronger legs than most and that has made me very enthusiastic.

Never wait for your muse. Train him/her to show up to work when you do by pushing on. It's a dominant submission thing.

You can't automate in the arts. Since the sixteenth century there has been no change in the number of people necessary to produce Hamlet.

My mind wanders a lot, but fortunately it's too weak to go very far.

You want me and I want you. right?" Who did she think she was? You can't just go around blurting out the truth like a prophet with Tourette's Syndrome. He said, "Well, I guess. Yeah, that's right.

Soul and intellect are just the same things.

Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath one could find worlds.

Love is just a shout in the void.

Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life.

Science burrows its insulted head in the filth of slaughterous inventions.