If ever Shakespeare rants, it is not when his imagination is hurrying him along, but when he is hurrying his imagination along.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. One who trusts nobody will not trust sycophants. One who does not value real glory will not value its counterfeit.

Finesse is the best adaptation of means to circumstances.

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.

In this era, there are all kinds of prakrutis (personality of the relative self), so how can it work without adjusting?

I feel like we were the last generation, and there's this big divide before and after the 1990s. I feel sorry for the kids today. It's all too much.

Teaching people the best way to market organically with Facebook, is like teaching them the best way to butter bread, with a spoon.

I still like to make crank calls.

I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches.

I think the close work I do as a translator pays off in my writing - I'm always searching for multiple ways to say things.

Life is hard, but death is even harder.

I'll sing as long as I can because I enjoy doing that. I enjoy the fans and what I do. I love the traveling and the hotels and just seeing the world over and over again.

My family lives all around me. We see each other daily. It's very, very complicated. I think that families hold us together and they split us apart.