Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.

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.

I find peace where the sun kissed leaves dance in the melody of the cool breeze that floats through the air.

We are forever becoming! We never arrive, as long as we are on this side of Heaven there is more to learn.

Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.

I'm no genius, but I'm a damn good football coach.

As a dead man cannot inherit an estate, no more can a dead soul inherit heaven. The soul must be resurrected in Christ.

My parents owned a soul food diner. It inspired me to go to culinary school.

I can be thrown by the wayside, but I'm looking at the stars.

I'm known clean around the Earth.

I remember going to church about four times a week. I liked it a lot.

Just because I was 30 doesn't mean I was grown. God, I was such an idiot. I was an absolute idiot at 30. And I grew up.