A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.

Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

Oh, look at me! I'm making people happy! I'm the Magical Man from Happy-Land, in a gumdrop house on Lollipop Lane! Oh, by the way, I was being sarcastic.

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

After the event, even a fool is wise.

You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.

Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

The son of Saturn gave The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls Upon the Sovereign One's immortal head Were shaken, and with them the mighty mount, Olympus trembled.

Every way he turned, his past was detonated, revealing tunnels and alternative routes under the packed, settled earth of the present.

Whenever you possess something, but lack the understanding of its value, there are some consequences you suffer

Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.

Don't fake it till you make it. Just get busy making it!

I felt a kinship with country music, because country has lyrics that tell stories

To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.

I listen to the gunfire we cannot hear, and begin this journey with the light of knowing the root of my own furious love.

It's not the note you play that's the wrong note - it's the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.

Your priority has to be the creativity - and build a brand. That's what everybody did - Balenciaga, Dior, Saint Laurent. That's the smart thing to do.

Burn pedants in pale fire. Accept no fashions. Be your own fashion. Do not rely on earlier triumphs. Be new at each appearance.