Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood.

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.

Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

Telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

Perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create?

Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such time takes flight and, in her absence; wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride.

If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.

Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is a seed shut up in the pod, and art without practice is nothing.

It may be that we’re not seeing the wonder in life because all we’re doing is wondering how we’re going to survive life.

Face your true self. You're reaction when facing any animal is much more likely to be Ahh, cute than Yum, dinner!

Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Of all cold words of tongue or pen, the worst are these: "I knew him when -

Being the number one pick was a great opportunity and meant a lot to me.

Golf - a young man's vice and an old man's penance.

This is the way I look when I'm sober. It's enough to make a person drink, don't you say?

People are thrown off by someone who looks feminine, but is also strong. It's not that pretty girls aren't smart, it's that women aren't strong.

Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.

I am a model of positivity compared to the kinds of vitriol, the kinds of destructive criticisms that Labor members of parliament have been making of each other.