We ought to consider the end in everything.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

In no man's land, alien is the queen.

Magic was a thing that, when I did it, it made all the kids go, "Ah, that's cool."

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

All I did was write it down, one word after the other, beginning and ending with the same one, Bombay.

Christ bears the wounds of the church, his body, just as he bore the wounds of crucifixion. I sometimes wonder which have hurt worse.

What interests me is the opportunity for all of us to become something different from what we are, by constructing spaces that contribute something to the experience of who we are.

Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.

I just love bikes. It's not the safest passion to have, but I guess it's better than Russian roulette.

Theres a fine line between playing a dim-witted character and playing a cartoon.