Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment.

However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal.

The happier time, the quicker it passes

And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head.

It is difficult to retain what you may have learned unless you should practice it. -Difficile est tenere quae acceperis nisi exerceas

Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work.

There is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part. -Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit

Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions.

It is wonderful how the mind is stirred and quickened into activity by brisk bodily exercise.

The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.

That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.

What I truly desire to do, I shall dare attempt.

Chase leaned on the table, staring Sammy straight in the eye. "If you ever, ever try to harm my mate again, in any way, no matter how indirectly, I will find you.

Unless a design is infused with a personality - and by that, I mean mine or someone else who really understands what design is all about - it will never, ever have any mystery.

I think, as a filmmaker, it's important to be honest with yourself at all times in terms of what's working and what's not.

You do not have to protect people's pocket books. They'll do a better job of that than you will.

I think the world would be much better if you always started the morning by calling the person you dreamt of during the night.

It was a promise she knew I might not be able to keep. But I made it anyway because I was going to find a way to make it true.

If blood be shed, let it be our own. Let us cultivate the calm courage to die without killing.

If you play music for no other reason than actually just because you love it, the skills just kinda creep up on you.

Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy. You've had about seven hours of sleep since Friday. No wonder you feel that lost sensation. You're sunk from a riot of relaxation.