I had been tricked once by that Cheat called love, but the Game was over.

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.

Man needs entertainment simply to hide his madness. If he was perfectly sane, he would not need entertainment. He could just sit and watch this bamboo grow. He does not really need entertainment.

Because family and friends are the foundation of who you are, this is a realm where no excuses should exist. Give them your all without excuses.

At any given moment, you have the power to say: This is not how the story is going to end.

The lesser of two evils was still evil.

There must be at least 500 million rats in the United States of course I am speaking only from memory.

To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character.

Being followed is weird, that people want to discuss where I ate lunch or what I wear when I go to lunch... the private life is just gone.

You can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.

I feel like a cliche.

I found out that many of our Catholics simply don't know what the church teaches, and why, on a lot of issues, and therefore are saying things that they think are okay. They simply don't know.