The tongue should not be suffered to outrun the mind.

If you confer a benefit, never remember it; if you receive one, never forget it.

Do not let one's tongue outrun one's sense.

Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.

If one is strong be also merciful, so that one's neighbors may respect one rather than fear one.

A youthful age is desirable, but aged youth is troublesome and grievous.

Do nothing immoderate.

What is difficult? To keep a secret, to employ leisure well, to be able to bear an injury.

Do not make too much haste on one's road.

As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries men.

Learn how to regulate one's own house well.

I have seen flowers come in stony placesAnd kind things done by men with ugly faces, And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races, So I trust, too.

As life is a breath, savoring is a held exhale, a placeholder for joy.

Love is like a season, it ebbs and it flows, sometimes we're like Summer, Fall and Winter, but it's Spring that I long to know.

It is important that when we come to die we have nothing to do but die.

There are many vampires in the world today - you only have to think of the film business.

Gravity works in your life, the notion of free will works in your life, however problematic it may at times be.

I want to see more women behind the scenes.

Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.

When you're on the road, you have to be louder and you have to communicate. That's really the bottom line.

Your mind doesn't know the difference between reality and fantasy. Your mindacts on what you feed it. Feed it good thoughts.