When you are in love you are not wise; or, when you are wise you are not in love.

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.

I always said that Wahhabism is unacceptable for the Chechen nation.

Remember what we're looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency, that no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match.

I wasn't raised with money, so I had to get used to having it. I think I've adjusted to it pretty well.

Does he have a double standard for black critics as opposed to white critics?

Ever try to have a conversation with someone on drugs? It just doesn't work.

I don't believe anything. I only know some things to a greater degree of certainty than others.

You can lie to your wife or your boss, but you cannot lie to your typewriter. Sooner or later you must reveal your true self in your pages.

There is nobody else for me, and I don't want anybody else

If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.

I don't trust a lot of popular films because they seem to indicate that people would like to be super-heroes or vampires, and that's the last thing I mean by the useful mirror of art.