Keen at the start, but careless at the end.

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.

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

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 darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.

Nothing could be more irrational than the idea that something comes from nothing.

You have to respect all your competitors.

So from an angry lawman's mouth, the Outlaw Motorcyclists were born.

There are two extremes to avoid: being completely absorbed in your pain and being distracted by so many things that you stay far away from the wound you want to heal.

If you can handle a nightclub audience successfully, you can handle anything

After a few games I knew I was going to be able to compete. The idea of being a star never crossed my mind.

Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask. What's in it for me?

Simple mechanisms do not love.

One sits more comfortably on a colour that one likes.