The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part.

The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

The arrows are from her dowry.

The abject pleasure of an abject mind And hence so dear to poor weak woman kind. [Lat., Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet, quam femina.]

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.

Quis costodiet ipsos custodies? (Who will watch the watchers?)

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Children are God's way of saving us. They give us a second chance at getting it right.

Every leader, and every regime, and every movement, and every organization that steps across the line to terrorism must be banished from the discourse of civilized human life.

It was when I saw Iggy Pop, that's what did it for me. That changed my life pretty much.

Familiarity is the most destructive of all iconoclasts.

Damn words; they're just the pots and pans of life, the pails and scrubbing-brushes. I wish I didn't have to think in words.

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

There's no doubt that we have, as we always do in the nation, reacted to the reality of 911 here in the country as an aviation incident. There are other vulnerabilities to be dealt with.

The trick to writer's block is to sack up and write through it, you see.

I've got all of my enemies here in the Cabinet where I can keep an eye on them.

A politician before he can become a statesman has to remain in office long enough.