Don't try to make intelligent decisions when your brain is hyped

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

In war, truth is the first casualty.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

The air is Zeus, Zeus earth, and Zeus the heaven, Zeus all that is, and what transcends them all.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter

Seek knowledge to amaze yourself endlessly.

To speak of mystery in a Christian sense means that the human mind is finite and not fully able to understand, deduce or even contain the deep structures of God's reality.

A wedding is a ceremony men fund with money they know they don’t have … to prove the love they think they have.

The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

The main question is not, how can we hide our wounds...but how can we put our woundedness in service to others.

I think TV is all about not turning off the public, it's about not being too sexy, not being too much of anything really.

Sam [Mendes] said he took advantage of the fact that Kate and I were so close for many years. He knew it was something he could harness in our performances, and we knew that too.

Eddie was intensely dedicated too. Adrian sometimes called him mini-Dimitri