“Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.”

Lies and literature have always been friends.

Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.

What God does, He does well.

We believe no evil till the evil’s done.

But the shortest works are always the best.

Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.

The reason of the strongest is always the best.

People must help one another; it is nature’s law.

Patience and perseverance at length Accomplish more than anger or brute strength.

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

Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.

Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.

Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.

Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.

All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.

Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.

I don’t care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.

As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.

I want the best product for my audience, and if I don’t care 100%, who will? It’s my name, my likeness that goes out there.

Chaos is what we’ve lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.

We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other – in balance with it… The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.

When a woman says, ‘I don’t wish to mention any names’, it means it ain’t necessary to mention any names.

After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist – if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced.

A good umpire is the umpire you don’t even notice. He’s there all afternoon but when the game is over, you don’t even remember his name.