Speak of the Gods as they are.

It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend.

Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions.

The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able to bear misfortune.

Be slow in considering, but resolute in action.

Hear much; speak little.

The majority is wicked.

What is man's greatest bane? His brother man alone.

Monarch, thou wishest to cover thyself with glory; be the first to submit to the laws of thy empire.

It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.

He who will lose a present good for one in expectation hath some wit, but a small store of wisdom.

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

Here is the devil-and-all to pay.

The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.

An animal that is very abundant, before it gets extinct, it becomes rare. So you don't lose abundant animals. You always lose rare animals. Therefore, they're not perceived as a big loss.

Keeping the pen out of your hand as much as possible is the best way to write a song, in my estimation. But the pen must come in to tighten it up.

We all have bad days and bad workouts, when running gets ugly, when split times seem slow, when you wonder why you started. It will pass.

Long-term unemployment can make any worker progressively less employable, even after the economy strengthens.

To grow up in intimate association with nature - animal and vegetable - is an irreplaceable form of wealth and culture.

Aesthetically, I don't really like the blond, tan thing. I am pale. So I may as well embrace the pale. Long, blond hair and a bad spray tan is the stuff of my nightmares.

I was lucky. My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or four years old.