After divorce of Pompeia in 62 BC I feel that members of my family should never be suspected of breaking the law. -Meos tam suspicione quam crimine iudico carere oportere

Without training, they lacked knowledge. Without knowledge, they lacked confidence. Without confidence, they lacked victory.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look.

A coward dies a thousand deaths, the gallant never taste of death but once.

As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.

In the end, it is impossible not to become what others believe you are.

If I fail it is only because I have too much pride and ambition.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

The difference between a republic and an empire is the loyalty of one's army

If you're bored, you're boring.

Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.

Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.

Life is too short for mean anxieties.

I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory.

We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.

Each book starts from ashes.

In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds.

I never go ballistic, I'm always measured and tempered.

There is tremendous life and personality in a name. It should be at least as agonized over as any character trait.