Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.