“Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person?”

I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry.

The evil that we know is best.

Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

It is a great plague to be too handsome a man.

If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.

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

You will stir up the hornets.

He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another’s experience.

There are games in which it is better to lose than win.

I am myself my own commander.

The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.

If you do anything well, gratitude is lighter than a feather; if you give offense in anything, people’s wrath is as heavy as lead.

He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve.

Every one can remember that which has interested himself.

The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious.

Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.

All of this, however, is still in the discussion phase and in the initial planning phase.

The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.

I feel that working with the camera and editing it is actually my strong suit.

We had no other option – there was a radical militia allied with Iran and Hezbollah that took over the country.

I would be so exhausted by my determination that I had no strength left to do the actual work.