Success is like a lovely woman, wooed by many men, but folded in the arms of him alone who, free from over-zeal, firmly persists and calmly perseveres.

The natural hostility of beasts is laid aside when flying from pursuers; so also when danger is impending the enmity of rivals is ended.

The friendship of the bad is like the shade of some precipitous bank with crumbling sides, which, falling, buries him who is beneath.

Do nothing rashly; want of circumspection is the chief cause of failure and disaster. Fortune, wise lover of the wise, selects him for her lord who ere he acts reflects.

The undertaking of a careless man succeeds not, though he use the right expedients: a clever hunter, though well placed in ambush, kills not his quarry if he falls asleep.

Those who wish well towards their friends disdain to please them with words which are not true.

Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others.

I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief struggle and flashes of vision which enlighten.

To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.

The fact that people are embracing me so well as a new artist and being taken so seriously is something I'm really surprised by.

The last thing reporters and editors want to be told is what to do and how to write. They don't want to be some politically correct, Orwellian, kind of like "you're telling me how to write about...?"

Angels are able to know and understand better than the human intellect can, precisely because such knowledge and understanding comes to them by way of ideas infused in them by God.

TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.

Equality of opportunity is the essence of social justice.

We don't need this religious cosmopolitanism. It's no good.

Hard times always uncover the basic goodness and evil of the day.