Oh, how cowardly is wickedness always!

Take time for deliberation. Haste spoils everything.

It is for the good of states that men should be deluded by religion.

Allow time and moderate delay; haste manages all things badly.

Fear in the world first created the gods. [Lat., Primus in orbe deos fecit timor.]

A just fortune awaits the deserving. [Lat., Fors aequa merentes Respicit.]

Give not reins to your inflamed passions: take time and a little delay; impetuosity manages all things badly.

It is noble to grant life to the vanquished. [Lat., Pulchrum est vitam donare minori.]

In doubt, fear is the worst of prophets.

It is an honourable thing to be merciful to the vanquished.

They send their shout to the stars. [Lat., Clamorem ad sidera mittunt.]

Happiness is what you choose, what you follow, not what follows you. These are the things I have seen, these are the things I now know, these are the things I will carry with me as I go.

All these people that I used to know, they're an illusion to me now. Some are mathematicians, some are carpenters' wives.

But, as soon as speculators become an important influence in the market, their business is to speculate on each others behaviour.

There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.

Not to sound too deep or weird, but I think that the times when you really appreciate surfing are the times you're really sort of becoming one with nature. Surfing's as raw of a sport as it gets.

It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.

How much fame, money and power does a woman have to achieve on her own before you can punch her in the face?

Common sense needs to be more common.

I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera.

The United States have no possessions in the east and do not desire to have any, as other countries do.