Ausonius must be read to be believed! As poet, no subject is too trivial for him; as courtier, no flattery too excessive.

It often happens, that misery will follow a marriage when the dowry is too large.

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself.

Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man.

Let the blacksmith wear the chains he has himself made.

If lucky be not proud; if unlucky, do not despond.

Begin whatever you have to do: the beginning of a work stands for the whole.

He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.

If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.

It is tormenting to fear what you cannot overcome.

Be not arrogant when fortune smiles, or dejected when she frowns.

Put your trust in God but be sure to keep your powder dry.

If I'm not living from my heart, I get sick.

Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.

We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.

When I sing, I have to live in that moment, so my audience can feel that. That is my reason for doing art.

I was now ordered to have my writings copied, and put into the printer's hand.

The only knowledge that can truly orient action is knowledge that frees itself from mere human interests and is based in Ideas - in other words knowledge that has taken a theoretical attitude.

I can't just be the girl who sang 'I Kissed a Girl.' I have to leave a legacy.

Our judgements of good and evil ... presuppose God as the standard. If there's no God, there's neither good nor evil. There's just nature doing what it does

I want to change the color of Starbucks from green to red. Whose job was it to say, This is going to be green? I want that to be my job.