If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.

The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure

The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.

In valor there is hope.

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.

The most seditious is the most cowardly.

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.

The greatest moments in our lives occur when we surrender: birth, love, and death.

I have woken up…quite sloshedfrom night-mingled rainsa little drugged, by mountain fogsI have been kidnappedfor years....by a mere kiss.

To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.

If I have a pocket, then I'll have lip balm, my keys, and $10 cash.

Let us agree that we are marrying so we can go on quarrelling in the greatest possible comfort and convenience.

I'm a bad pessimist. I don't think about how successful any record I've ever done is going to do before it came out.

There's something perverse isn't there, if you're playing in front of 100,000 people and there's 2000 people down the front who don't like, you think: what is it that they don't like?

Greatness comes from living with purpose and passion.

It is the church's job, as Dr. [Martin Luther] King says, to be the conscience of the state, not the chaplain of the state.

Creative people tend to pass the responsibility for getting down to brass tacks to others.