Like everything else in the world, it is one man's work.

Threatened men live long.

Witta feared nothing - except to be poor.

I have joyfully done much evil in my life to those who have wished me evil (General Maximus)

There is no gift like friendship. Remember this - when you become a young man. For your fate will turn on the first true friend you make.

I had come down here, not to serve God as a craftsman should, but to show my people how great a craftsman I was. They cared not.

What avail is honour or a sword against a pen?

Barbarians are all alike... sit up half the night to discuss anything a Roman says.

It was crime at its purest, in which empathy, that most fundamental aspect of human morality, evaporated and another being became only a target for untamed fantasy.

I have this recurring nightmare where I'm lost in a strange forest, and my only hope is your sense of direction. Enough to give a fellow the sweats, it is.

Work! Thank God for the swing of it for the clamoring hammering ring of it.

Marriage is not easy. You have to decide to work. That's what it really comes down to: two people deciding to stay together or not.

We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It's very materialistic. It's full of desire and luxury goods.

Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.

I've always known I was adopted.

The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary.

Every one of us strives to be a better person; and if I am to contribute one thing of myself, it would be compassion.

To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love 'em.