Alas! by what slight means are great affairs brought to destruction.

What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly overthrew.

He who seeks to terrify others is more in fear himself.

Nature has given the opportunity of happiness to all, knew they but how to use it.

Whoever desires is always poor.

Power call achieve more by gentle means than by violence.

Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high position.

The people become more observant of justice, and do not refuse to submit to the laws when they see them obeyed by their enactor.

Death is the great leveller.

A severe war lurks under the show of peace.

In sleep, when fancy is let loose to play, Our dreams repeat the wishes of the day.

Words have weight.

Smartass Disciple: Where were all things before the time began?Master of Stupidity: What was the time before all things created?

You find the wrong boy, you ask for trouble. You find the right boy, you find love.

Even before 9/11 I was gripped by a sense of dread: our lack of criticism about what we were doing in the Middle East - the slagging off of a whole religious tradition.

For me, I wanted to create something that's much more driven by a type of selfishness, a type of decadence.

We try to make the sound hold as much relevance as it does on the record you know, we don't try and interpret it in a different way.

But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems.

To the reactionary ear every whispered criticism of the elite classes has always sounded like the opening shot of an uprising.

Most actors can't make any kind of living.