“Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.”

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Of all the wild beasts of land or sea, the wildest is woman.

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Art is man’s refuge from adversity.

The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.

The workman still is greater than his work.

At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool.

If you want to live your whole life free from pain you must become either a god or else a corpse. Consider other men’s troubles and that will comfort you.

Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.

Hope saves a person in the midst of misfortunes.

The good man makes others good.

No man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.

The truth sometimes not sought for comes forth to the light.

I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.

Of all wild beasts on earth or in sea, the greatest is a woman.

Being mortal, never pray for an untroubled life. Rather, ask the God to give you an enduring heart.

You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.

Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.

We were filming in Greenland, and I treated my crew.

It kills me to know, that I healed your broken heart just so you could walk away and beat someone else’s name.

Don’t trust anyone. Be a cold fish. I hurt no one. And no one can hurt me.

Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one?

Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.

And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended.