One often has need of one inferior to himself.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

The [Five Second Rule] has many variations, including The Three Second Rule, The Seven Second Rule, and the extremely handy and versatile The However Long It Takes Me to Pick Up This Food Rule.

There is more fulfilment when sharing with others than enjoying on your own - whatever success you achieve.

...people demonize certain types of crime - it's a way of distancing ourselves from the monsters...

I am in great terror of your understanding by which you penetrate into my world; and then I stand revealed and I have shared my kingdom with you.

I think it distinguishes television from every other medium. It's what makes it kind of radical, and risky, and fun.

Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority.

Architecture ... the adaptation of form to resist force.

We are apt to consider Shakespeare only as a poet; but he was certainly one of the greatest moral philosophers that ever lived.

I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.

If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody.