A condensed Shakespeare with all of the dull parts removed, leaving only the great moments of drama: ghosts, and bloodied daggers, and dying kings.

Know a man by his metaphors.

The trick was not to stifle the emotions, but to control them. Love, anger, grief – all were weapons in their way, but they needed to be kept in check.

You pay by the hour, even if the job only takes five minutes. I don’t do fractions.

Slow animals always become prey in the end.

If cats could count, they’d start getting nervous around the time they put paid to their fifth life.

But he was wounded, and tired, and winter was still upon him.

It’s a full-time job being homeless. It’s a full-time job being poor.

Misery loved company, but damnation needed it.

Sometimes in order to be happy in the present moment you have to be willing to give up all hope for a better past.

When an animal comes between the lion and its prey, the animal first becomes the prey before the main prey.

Like a pet fish unaware of the fishbowl it lives in, each of us inherently discriminates against young people without knowing it.

Guns are bad, I tell you.

Thinking men and women the world over are beginning to realize that patriotism is too narrow and limited a conception to meet the necessities of our time.

By predestination we mean the eternal decree of God, by which He determined with Himself whatever He wished to happen with regard to every man

Nought venture, nought have. [Nothing ventured, nothing gained.]

Innovations are changes which cannot be decomposed into infinitessimal steps.

I have all the answers, it's just that most of them aren't right.