He will be the last to discover the disgrace of his house.

The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

The arrows are from her dowry.

The abject pleasure of an abject mind And hence so dear to poor weak woman kind. [Lat., Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet, quam femina.]

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.

Quis costodiet ipsos custodies? (Who will watch the watchers?)

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.

A slave that acknowledges its enslavement is halfway to its liberation.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

To be honest, I think bananas are a pathetic fruit.

To the folks that continue to support through ups and downs... good and bad... I can't thank you.

A great movie, in my opinion, is one that tells a familiar story in an unfamiliar way.

Writers get exactly the right amount of fame: just enough to get a good table in a restaurant but not enough so that people are constantly interrupting you while you're eating dinner.

Suggesting evil is human doesn’t mean we can always understand it.

It was very early, and we were still like beta or alpha stage, and so we started receiving a ton of download. The server became overloaded, and that's when I realized that this had a huge market.

You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers.