The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

The most important thing you must decide to do every day is put the Lord first.

With the first commandment, Mohammed tried to imprison common sense. And with the second commandment, the beautiful, romantic side of mankind was enslaved.

I wonder do the gods know what it feels like to be a man.

I am more afraid of making a fault in my Latin than of the Kings of Spain, France, Scotland, the whole House of Guise, and all of their confederates.

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.

I don't have any pressure on myself. I don't have a big record label backing me. I'm doing it all myself.

That's sort of what I like about this character is that he's not the good guy, he's not truly the bad guy.

I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me

Anything can happen. The great banana peel of existence is always on the floor somewhere.

I don't immerse myself in the Internet chatter because it opens you up to a whole source of danger.