Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.

I prefer to do right and get no thanks than to do wrong and receive no punishment.

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

Furthermore, I think Carthage must be destroyed.

We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.

The hero saves us. Praise the hero! Now, who will save us from the hero?

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.

If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.

Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

There are no good men, only good monsters.

Memory is your image of perfection.

God has neither form nor shape under which we can know Him; when he speaks of Himself in metaphors and similes, He is adapting Himself to our foolishness, our limited capacity.

Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices.

People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such a damned rush to give yourself to them you go bat-blind and deaf.

You do not need to know anything about a plant to know that it is beautiful.

I want a girlfriend who eats as much as I do, which is a lot.

If the restoration did anything it shattered the age-old myth that God has stopped talking to his children.

Many people are passionate, but because of their limiting beliefs about who they are and what they can do, they never take actions that could make their dream a reality