The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.

As you make your bed you must lie in it.

He's had a lot of chances to care, and he hasn't.

Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.

Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.

PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy.

It takes a great deal of time and thought to install work carefully. This should not always be thrown away. Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved again.

I'd grown up thinking that a [sanitary toilet] was my right, when in fact it's a privilege - 2.5 billion people worldwide have no adequate toilet.

A figure of speech is a shifty thing; it can be twisted or it can be straight.

When women are angry at men, they call them heartless. When men are angry at women, they call them crazy.