The saying, "Practice is everything," is Periander's.

Judge of a tree by its fruit, not by its leaves.

Practice is everything. This is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect.

Freedom is a clear conscience.

He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled, is not credited even when he speaks the truth.

Pleasures are transient, honors are immortal.

Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity.

He who assists the wicked will in time rue it.

Democracy is better than tyranny.

He who trusts himself for safety to the care of a wicked man, in seeking succor meets with ruin.

However exalted our position, we should still not despise the powers of the humble.

We do tend to believe things while we're hearing or reading them. Afterwards, it's another matter, when the book is closed and the voice stops speaking.

She sighed. “What I wouldn’t give for a civilized bathroom.” Howie remained silent out of habit and also because he didn’t know what a civilized bathroom was.

Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.

FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth. An habitual liar's nearest approach to truth: the perigee of his eccentric orbit.

The idea with theatre is to come to an environment that you enjoy.

Right before I jumped out of a plane, I knew what Superman felt like.

You've had a long working life As everyone knows You can now do nothing at all And then have a doze Enjoy Your Retirement

Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.

When you lock a movie's release date and then move it two months, it's just not good. It's good for everything but the cast, crew, and people who are creatively trying to make a film.

It's really weird getting phone calls, and people going 'I love you, I love you, I love you.'