It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

We must treat with respect our world and all upon it. Túwaqachi is not inherited from our ancestors

An artist is generally expected to stick to one motif, one persona. People get used to seeing someone put down a certain thing.

The truth is that you already are what you are seeking. You are looking for God with his eyes. I suggest you ask, "What's ultimately behind this set of eyes?" Turn around to see what is looking.

Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of.

In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them.

You meet the same people on the way down that you meet on the way up, but you're going the other way.

The world is a mirror in which everyone sees himself reflected

But this…this kid wasn’t dead yet. Makes no sense to me. (Bubba) Maybe someone spiked his Wheaties? (Nick)

I got accepted at Yale but never went.

Don’t tell me you’re going to eat a mashed-potato sandwich