One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.

Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

By words the mind is winged.

Our task is not to find love but to remove all blocks that we have built against it.

If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more complicated activity that that.

Do not ever fear your enemies, who attack you relentlessly, But do ever be afraid of the friends who flatter you habitually.[231] - 4 (Thoughts)

I don't really buy designer stuff. I have a few nice things, but I don't really have the occasion to wear couture too often.

A refined soul is distressed to know that someone owes it thanks; a crude soul, to know that it owes someone thanks.

I pay a lot of attention to whitespace. I pay a lot of attention to the rhythm of words together.

When I was on 'Complete Savages,' the cast sometimes found themselves running from a mob of girls. There is nothing quite like that.

Nowadays people think that history is what was on TV last night.

There are many, many angels, more than there are human beings. They stand before the throne of God and praise Him. At the same time, they are among us, with us. Angels are real. And they are here.

Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.