A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.

A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration. [Lat., Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum excitavit incendium.]

Haste is slow. [Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]

The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.

The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent. [Lat., Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt, et fortuna nunquam simpliciter indulget.]

A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.

Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule.

The mob has no ruler more potent than superstition.

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers.

Reality is the #1 cause of insanity among those who are in contact with it

Appearances are nothing.... And first of all they should not be feared, they are only dangerous to the weak.

Politics is not really politics any more. It is run, for the most part, by Madison Avenue advertising firms, who sell politicians to the public the way they sell bars of soap or cans of beer.

Better a lively old epigram than a deadly new one.

But I just loved looking at the clothes of the '70s.

I let my music do the talking. Ain't no TV show gonna help me. Ain't no hit single gon help me sell no records.

I will be talking with gymnasts from some of the other countries. I will be getting a feel for what they're thinking and what they're doing. It should be a really great meet

I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is - this thing that happens to everyone, so I've heard.

Look! Don't be deceived by appearances - men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!

Love is just a piece of time in the world in the world And I couldn't help but fall in love again