The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.

Terror made me cruel.

I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal.

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.

I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?

Honest people don't hide their deeds.

He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous

Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.

The clock strikes off the hollow half hours of all the life that is left to you one by one.

Whatever our souls are made of his and mine are the same.

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they dont turn against him they crush those beneath them.

Cold in the earth and fifteen wild Decembers From those brown hills have melted into spring.

But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water rest within arms length of the shore I must reach it first and then Ill rest.

A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

Based on the Bible, I believe that all the land animals were made on day six, and Adam and Eve were made on day six, and people try to make fun of us for believing that dinosaurs lived with people, but there are a lot of animals living today that evolution says lived with dinosaurs.

'I'm Yours' was written effortlessly in about 20 minutes' time, and I honestly thought it was more of like a kids' song, and I didn't do anything with it for years.

I hope we can keep doing it this way - making music and art that are pure products of our influences while not really having to let the whole celebrity side of it get in the way. Then maybe more virtual bands will come out and do the same thing.

Certainly if we hope do enhance and extend whatever natural assets we were given, we must expect to make an effort, if not actually great labor.

In fact, the Iraqi foreign minister admitted in March 2003 that Iraqi funds were sent to families of Palestinian suicide bombers who attacked and killed innocent Israeli citizens, and also 12 Americans in Israel in 2003.

In school, I was playing old men and women, babies, Russian people, and all sorts of weird parts - a lot of comedy - and that's sort of like home to me.

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing “ that's why we recommend it daily.

Once I was in my last year of law school, I started doing plays, as I said, without taking the bar. And I got hooked. I did a play called 'Marat/Sade', and I never had so much fun in my life.

Coming from a broken home, I wanted to be as sure as I could be that my kids would have two parents who will stay together and bring them up.

On cable now, the writer is king. Any actor chases that.

Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.

Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater.

I have gained a lot of confidence in my process of making films. It does't mean I'll make a successful film or even a good film, but I know how to make my film.

I think if somebody is so set in their ways about what they feel about something - and you get this a lot in academia, of course, and also different sorts of journalism too - you're going to sweep under the carpet the facts that don't suit your thesis. And I think that happens quite a lot in the courtroom, for instance.

Liberals hate real Americans that work and achieve and believe in God.

Chess: It's like alcohol. It's a drug. I have to control it, or it could overwhelm me. I have a regular Monday night game at my home, and I do play a little online.

You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.

As an individual, I think you have to find your own path. I like the simplicity and purity of Hinduism and many elements of Buddhism. These are all means of accessing spiritual energy.

A plant's ability to grow, increase and sustain itself became of secondary and almost minimal interest.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

Treat people with respect and do it with feelings too, whatever you expect others is what you have to give.

Diplomacy the art of restraining power.

In 1986, Microsoft and Oracle went public within a day of each other, and I recall telling one of my colleagues that the software business will become big. So I started working with software companies in the mid-'80s and never turned back.