The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent. [Lat., Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt, et fortuna nunquam simpliciter indulget.]

Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.

A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration. [Lat., Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum excitavit incendium.]

Haste is slow. [Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]

The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.

Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule.

The mob has no ruler more potent than superstition.

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers.

Happiness doesn't have to be chased...it merely has to be chosen.

There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I would not rather know it than not know it.

We co-create when we reach out and touch souls. Like rays of light—where they converge—twice as bright.

Never let someone who draws a line and say you can't cross it intimidate you. Don't be discouraged when someone says you can't do it. You might have been the only one sent to do it.

Sometimes talking to you is like talking to myself: pretty damned annoying.

General knowledge may have to be slight or even amateurish knowledge, but it is none the less useful, and we discourage it at our peril.

Emotional truths can sometimes be conveyed more effectively, more compellingly, through fiction.

I don't put on my best clothes to make a film, my Sunday best.

A million people can call the mountains a fiction, yet it need not trouble you as you stand atop them.

My life was not useless; I gave important truths to the world, and it was only for want of understanding that they were disregarded. I have been ahead of my time.