The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

It is never too late to be wise.

Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.

All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

Justice is always Violence to the Party offending, for every Man is Innocent in his own Eyes.

Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

The best of men cannot suspend their fate; The good die early, and the bad die late.

The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm without.

Pride, the first peer and president of Hell.

Hell has been cloaked in folklore and disguised in fiction for so long, many people deny the reality of such a place.

It is a State of Mind... and am the president

Fresh is better. But you've never drunk fresh blood. Have you?" Simon raised his eyebrow in response. "Well, aside from mine of course," Jace said. "And I'm pretty sure my blood is fan-tastic.

How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.

It is time to lay to rest the notion that germs jump into people and cause diseases.

In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed the documents to the next government, and I never heard about it again.

The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited.

From the solitude of the wood, (Man) has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the heart.

Life is too short to be taken seriously.

Maybe there is no one perfect person and anyone you end up with will eventually make you think there’s someone better out there.