Insanity has excuses; wickedness has not.

Truth travels slowly and gets weaker as it goes. Suitable lies are strong and run faster.

Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit.

Tomorrows were full of awful things. Today, now, was the essential.

Man provides his own goods and his own evils, neither God nor the Devil has anything to do with it.

the possession of power brings on madness.

The law should be the point at which savagery ended because civilization stood in its path.

To what do you not drive human hearts, cursed for craving gold!

Love- however doomed, had the capacity to attach bouys to the soul.

Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof.

Crime, after all, can be a way of establishing identity or acquiring security - at least the magistrate addresses you by name.

Lead by Example, not by showing samples

An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.

If you want to understand entrepreneurs, you have to study the psychology of the juvenile delinquent. They don't have the same anxiety triggers that we have.

God is not pre-occupied with sin, He’s already dealt with it.

That should be the anti-speeding advert. It should be footage of Richard Hammond trying to remember his own wedding day.

A champion isn’t made of muscle; a champion is made of heart.

There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority, and control – your mind and your mouth.

I'm like the trunk of a cactus... I take in a dose of culture and time with friends, then I retreat and go live on it for awhile until I get thirsty again.

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

Fruits that blossom first will first be ripe.