Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.

Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better.

Anyone who is an enemy of mine, let him love women, but let he who is my friend rejoice in men.

Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.

Not only the bull attacks his enemies with curved horn, but also the sheep, when harmed fights back.

Afflicted by love's madness all are blind.

Love can be put off, never abandoned.

Love never offers to anyone wings so easy that he does not hold him back with his other hand.

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.

Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.

Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?

By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.

No rival will steal away my sure love; that glory will be my gray hair.

I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength.

Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.

Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest.

At IMVU, the cost of customer acquisition through our five-dollar-a-day AdWords campaign was less than twenty-five cents. Our revenue from those same customers was more than a dollar.

When I met Peter Weir, we did a movie called 'Master and Commander' together, and that's when I really started to understand the power of acting, the power of directing, finding the emotion in performance.

How can you not be affected by disappointments relating to work you love so much?

Dealing with backstabbers there was one thing I learned. Theyre only powerful when you got your back turned.

Part of creating is understanding that there is always more to do; nothing is ever completely finished.

There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary.

The biggest turn-off for me is people who think the world of themselves. Arrogance is not a sexy quality, and it really gets on my nerves.

I can get my voicemail transcribed and sent to me as e-mail. I want to be able to have my address book and all my life come up on my TV and video chat. The whole telecommunications experience through a wire is still very relevant.

Geeks run the world. Condoleezza Rice is a geek, Bill Gates is clearly a geek, many of the big filmmakers and writers are geeks, lots of military people are geeks. Anyone who has heard Donald Rumsfeld talk about military hardware knows they are in the presence of a geek.

I don't like the Samba; it's nonsense. With a lot of these Latin dances I can't really understand what they're all about. I like the Rumba and the Paso Doble but the others I could take or leave.

You will go through pain in your life, but how you choose to respond to it is your choice.

The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.

I think I am really easygoing. Well... as I was about halfway through that sentence, I thought, 'No, actually you're really picky.' But the things I ask for are really simple to do.

Shrouds have no pockets

Songwriting is like a therapy, it's a connection that you have with another person, and I'm not scared of it at all for some reason.

I have no particular formula for staying private.

I can't say that I've ever actually got on a horse and roped a cow, no.

Ill weeds grow fast.

Without realizing it, I think I've wanted to do a sketch show since I was, like, 11 years old. Like everybody else in comedy, I grew up watching 'Saturday Night Live,' and I was doing characters with my friends.

There's not a human being alive I won't talk to. There's a quite simple rule. If you like somebody more than you dislike them you can have a relationship. Once you accept you like 75 per cent but 25 per cent you find irritating for this or that reason, you just have to ignore that 25 per cent.

There are a lot of good memories, and because I was injured, during the rehab, I met my wife. The tennis was very good but the injuries were good for something too.

My mother tongue, Mende, is very expressive, very figurative, and when I write, I always struggle to find the English equivalent of things that I really want to say in Mende. For example, in Mende, you wouldn't say 'night came suddenly'; you would say 'the sky rolled over and changed its sides.'

A father carries pictures where his money used to be.

The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?