The strongest passion is fear.

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.

Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

If you needed revenge, you’ve got it. Every minute that I’m with you knowing that you’re not mine is like hydrochloric acid in a razor cut.

I am quite an early riser - I usually get up between 5.30 and 6am and take the dogs out.

I'm of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe. Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life.

Falling in love is a crazy thing to do. It's kind of like a form of socially acceptable insanity.

I have to say, early on, to be fair, in the [Barack] Obama administration, the Obama White House said that Fox News was not a true news organization.

There are people who can sit down and write a song about any given subject, and they can do it really, really well.

Holiness sincerity, and faith.

Dying doesn't cause suffering. Resistance to dying does.

If we go to the conference finals and people say we had a bad season, I'll take that.