What we wish, that we readily believe.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.

Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things.

Do you remember that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, "How well he spoke" but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, they said, "Let us march.

The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.

We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.

A star shoots bleeding across the skyline, a companion to the black wind. Silence comes sweeping across everything.

Year of snow Fruit will grow.

For me, 'Sam & Cat' is cool because it's got this buddy-comedy aspect that 'iCarly' or 'Victorious' didn't have.

Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.

My desire to fight comes from within... it's a personal journey of accomplishment, not meant to be judges or for me to judge others.

Have an objective to give your bender a theme. For instance, stalking and killing a wild pig with a bowie knife.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

Prior art is as effective as US soldiers in Iraq: They control the ground they stand on, and nothing more. I used to say Vietnam, but, well, you know.

If they ever let me in the ring with him [Cassius Clay], I'm liable to be put away for murder.

I wonder if this is how is is with all evil men, that to someone, they look just like good men, talk like good men, are just as likable as good men.