Yet the age was not so utterly destitute of virtues but that it produced some good examples. [Lat., Non tamen adeo virtutum sterile seculum, ut non et bona exempla prodiderit.]

The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure

The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.

If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.

In valor there is hope.

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.

The most seditious is the most cowardly.

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

the great Judge rules with justice.

For those living in a dark cave... sometimes all it takes is for someone to throw us a lifeline.

Holding a grudge is a fatal flaw.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.

The goal for me is to have one track just flow into the next one and you can just get lost in it. I try to find that fluidity.

The whole magic of a plot requires that somebody be impeded from getting something over with.

Become one of the rare people who don't know how to quit.

What is planted in each person's soul will sprout.

What is Africa, anyway? Even I don't know what Africa is, entirely. But I know that it's not some of these simplified sound bites you hear in America.