In the space of seven years I have succeeded in accomplishing a great work and uniting the whole world in one Empire.

If you're afraid - don't do it, - if you're doing it - don't be afraid!

The strength of a wall is neither greater nor less than the courage of the men who defend it.

Remember, you have no companions but your shadow

An action comitted in anger is an action doomed to failure.

All who surrender will be spared; whoever does not surrender but opposes with struggle and dissension, shall be annihilated.

Come and sip from the cup of destruction.

A leader can never be happy until his people are happy.

Conquering the world on horseback is easy; it is dismounting and governing that is hard.

It is not sufficient that I succeed - all others must fail.

There is no good in anything until it is finished.

Kids grow up connected to nothing these days, plugged in and living lives boosted to them from other people.

Carlton was a blade

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Thank God my best friend's a therapist.

Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.

The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end one's own life in order to make room for God's life.

Play what you know and then play above that

A departure from the truth was hardly ever known to be a single one.

I am indeed a hedonistic utilitarian. I have defended hedonistic utilitarianism for quite a while.

I try to research or make up for myself what happened in any character's life. From when he was born until the first page of the script. I fill in the blanks.