Pride costs nothing, yet it is especially precious when it can be “purchased” at someone else’s expense.

He wore the memory of her embrace like armor, and though he knew it would not save his life, it would be all that was left to him to ease his passage into whatever lay beyond.

Since my arrival in Rome, I have had many opportunities to wonder if compassion’s opposite is cruelty, or to reflect whether or not indifference would serve as a better black to its white.

We would soon be on our way to war, where mercy is unwise and kindness has no place.

Why can’t I remember that not once have I ever seen a coin, whether grimy copper or bright gold, that had but one side.

Ignorance is an underrated virtue, my lord.

Some men simply refuse to appear insulted. But then, having felt the sting from the slap on their cheek, know just where to slip the knife, their smile never fading.

I advise, however, moderation in this task of setting goals, or else risk becoming tangled up in a Gordian knot of life’s many disappointments.

Oh, the unintended consequences of perfidy!

Their beauty had always seemed to him like the beauty of pressed flowers-lovely, but dead.

An indefinable something is to be done in a way nobody knows how at a time nobody knows when that will accomplish nobody knows what.

When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.

I really believe that my family's infrequency of getting sick is due to our diet.

I believe you should give 100% on the court, so I chase every ball.

I still think about that one Jamiroquai video a lot.

People never believe you.

People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power.

You cannot kickstart a dead horse

Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth; and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives.