Threatened men live long.

Witta feared nothing - except to be poor.

I have joyfully done much evil in my life to those who have wished me evil (General Maximus)

There is no gift like friendship. Remember this - when you become a young man. For your fate will turn on the first true friend you make.

I had come down here, not to serve God as a craftsman should, but to show my people how great a craftsman I was. They cared not.

What avail is honour or a sword against a pen?

Like everything else in the world, it is one man's work.

Barbarians are all alike... sit up half the night to discuss anything a Roman says.

I hate the very noise of troublous man Who did and does me all the harm he can. Free from the world I would a prisoner be And my own shadow all my company.

My work is intensely personal.

My wife said to me, "I want to be cremated." I said, "How about Tuesday?"

Thought experiment is in any case a necessary precondition for physical experiment. Every experimenter and inventor must have the planned arrangement in his head before translating it into fact.

a trouble shared is a trouble half endured.

Misery loves company. There's a lot to that.

Elvis had animal magnetism, he was even sexy to the guys, I can't imagine what the chicks used to think.

The best way to battle fear is with courage. You have to look at the opposite of fear: Fear is scared of courage.

Don't judge your success by other peoples opinions. Have self belief.

The more you hesitate in a game, the more your chance of getting hit. Your focus isn't there. When you hesitate, usually you're in trouble.