What is man's greatest bane? His brother man alone.

It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend.

Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions.

The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able to bear misfortune.

Be slow in considering, but resolute in action.

Hear much; speak little.

The majority is wicked.

Monarch, thou wishest to cover thyself with glory; be the first to submit to the laws of thy empire.

It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.

He who will lose a present good for one in expectation hath some wit, but a small store of wisdom.

Some, by admiring other men's virtues, become enemies to their own vices.

There's no equivalent to Mozart in writing.

Sometimes it's easier to tell ourselves a story.

It's tough out there, boy, and as long as there are people, there’s gonna be somebody trying to take what you got and trying to drag you down. It's up to you whether you let them or not.

Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.

Oftentimes what happens is that the writer understands one character, but they don't understand the other one, and the other one ends up not being written as well.

Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.

The sun was bobbing on the horizon, just peeking over. Its light shimmered on the sand behind you, making your body look like it was glowing … like it had a kind of aura.

We runnin around in thousand-dollar clown suits, Better get some boots when Lucifer turn your city to Beirut.

We all make mistakes. If you can't make mistakes, you can't make decisions. I've made a lot bigger mistakes myself.