When in fear, it is safest to force the attack.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.

You can end love more easily than you can moderate it.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.

Nothing is our except time.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

Being brave enough to be alone frees you up to invite people into your life because you want them and not because you need them.

I will walk by myself and cure myself in the sunshine and the wind.

To me, love was a drug. Jett was my drug.

I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.

Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.

It’s not only for unanswered questions that we seek knowledge but also for the examination of unquestioned answers.

It's stupid. There are maps to show you how to get to the place where you want to be but no maps that show you how to get to the time when you want to be.

The only good hero is the kind who survives to talk about merchandising.

I'm not very good at being dull.

My 22-year-old [son] can see everything I've done, but my 15-year-old hasn't been able to see anything, at all. But yeah, I hope I'm a super cool dad.