I had come down here, not to serve God as a craftsman should, but to show my people how great a craftsman I was. They cared not.

Threatened men live long.

Witta feared nothing - except to be poor.

I have joyfully done much evil in my life to those who have wished me evil (General Maximus)

There is no gift like friendship. Remember this - when you become a young man. For your fate will turn on the first true friend you make.

What avail is honour or a sword against a pen?

Like everything else in the world, it is one man's work.

Barbarians are all alike... sit up half the night to discuss anything a Roman says.

They will always tell you that you can't do what you want to do, but you can do what you want to do. You just have to believe in yourself. The system is to bring you down, but you can rise up.

I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning.

I'm not f-ing Justin Bieber, you motherf-ers!

Diogenes said once to a person who was showing him a dial, "It is a very useful thing to save a man from being too late for supper.

I always felt my emancipation into truly being a grown-up was when I had to figure out how to fold up a king-size fitted bottom sheet on my own.

Man, sometimes God really sucks.

Anyone who has to ask about the annual upkeep of a yacht can't afford one.

A.I. poses a potential threat more dangerous than nuclear weapons.

I'm not computer literate. I e-mail. I know how to get on the Web, but I haven't crossed over into the internet world. I'm old-fashioned, I guess.

Come, Lady, die to live.