To accept a favor is to sell one's freedom. -Beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many.

One ungrateful person does an injury to all needy people.

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.

Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.

A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.

Never promise more than you can perform.

You have this and this, soon it will come and this and you are still at this level of knowledge... so poor for you!

We should seek not so much to pray but to become prayer.

A father's suspicion...' she began. Is as powerful as a mother's intuition.' ~pg 87, Ruana Singh and Jack Salmon

Fathers are the geniuses of the house because only a person as intelligent as we could fake such stupidity.

Adolescents are attracted to tragic heroes. That's why rock stars dress like homeless people. Adolescence is a fall. It's when every child becomes an orphan.

I don't plan on selling out. I mean, it's nice to get a dinner reservation ahead of other people, but when it comes down to it, the most important thing to me is the actual work.

My domineering lover made no apologies for his caveman tendencies.

The moment Eve bit into the apple, her eyes opened and she became free. She exposed the truth of what every woman knows: to find our sovereign voice often requires a betrayal.

I talk about airplanes and things like that while my scars are on clear view.

I had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballet-mongers.