Truth is not always injured by fiction.

In taking revenge upon our enemies, we are only even with them; in passing over their malice we are superior.

A hero in one age will be a hero in another.

What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.

When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.

We are better deceived by having some truth told us than none.

The life of a good man is a continual prayer.

The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.

The law has no power over heroes.

No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.

There is no logic like the logic of the heart.

Imaginary (thinking) leads to bliss of the mind and the true (real thinking) leads to bliss of the Self (Soul).

Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.

Father of fathers!

And all our gods are not lies. They existed. All our gods, from the beginning of time, have been men with psychiatric conditions. And their delusions were so deep, they passed them on.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

You have to take pains in a memoir not to hang on the reader's arm, like a drunk, and say, 'And then I did this and it was so interesting.

I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.

I play disturbed people a lot, but always with a bit of distance or tongue-in-cheek. Most of the villains I play are essentially harmless.

Not to have known - as most men have not - either the mountain or the desert is not to have known one's self. Not to have known one's self is to have known no one.

It doesn't matter that I play football. Anybody can make a difference in life.