There is no gift like friendship. Remember this - when you become a young man. For your fate will turn on the first true friend you make.

Threatened men live long.

Witta feared nothing - except to be poor.

I have joyfully done much evil in my life to those who have wished me evil (General Maximus)

I had come down here, not to serve God as a craftsman should, but to show my people how great a craftsman I was. They cared not.

What avail is honour or a sword against a pen?

Like everything else in the world, it is one man's work.

Barbarians are all alike... sit up half the night to discuss anything a Roman says.

Greatest irony of life is living in self glory while glorifying God which is the ultimate joy is left behind.

How many times can a heart be shattered and still be pieced back together? How many times before the damage is irreparable?

I could not break records

It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

Take no moment for granted.

Zen Makes use, to a great extent, of poetical expressions; Zen is wedded to poetry.

Our salvation lies not in knowing, but in creating!

The main reason God has given us minds is that we might seek out and find all the reasons that exist for treasuring him in all things and above all things.

The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.