To what do you not drive human hearts, cursed for craving gold!

Truth travels slowly and gets weaker as it goes. Suitable lies are strong and run faster.

Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit.

Tomorrows were full of awful things. Today, now, was the essential.

Insanity has excuses; wickedness has not.

Man provides his own goods and his own evils, neither God nor the Devil has anything to do with it.

the possession of power brings on madness.

The law should be the point at which savagery ended because civilization stood in its path.

Love- however doomed, had the capacity to attach bouys to the soul.

Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof.

Crime, after all, can be a way of establishing identity or acquiring security - at least the magistrate addresses you by name.

What is your story? Be ready to share it when the Lord gives you the opportunity.

Doctrines are meant to serve man, not the other way around.

Dignity high station or great riches are in some sort necessary to old men in order to keep the younger at a distance who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.

[The photograph] is the object itself... [It] shares, by virtue of the very process of its becoming, the being of the model of which it is the reproduction; it is the model.

I have no idea how long Putin will last. The good news is, Putin doesn't know either. It will be sudden and it won't be peaceful. He has burned his bridges.

Personal excellence can be achieved by a visionary goal, through planning, dedicated execution, and total follow-through.

[Death:] The one inexorable thing!

You might say that certain words are only pegs to hang intonations on.

Do men have a biological clock? I feel like I do. Something is definitely ticking!

Life, if you live it right, keeps surprising you, and the thing that keeps surprising you the most…is yourself