Heroes in history seem to us poetic because they are there. But if we should tell the simple truth of some of our neighbors, it would sound like poetry.

Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

Happiness lies, first of all, in health.

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.

I walked beside the evening sea And dreamed a dream that could not be; The waves that plunged along the shore Said only: "Dreamer, dream no more!"

Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.

Damoder climbed slowly to his feet. 'Buy lot!' he wheedled, 'I am poor man. I sell you cheap. I am bank-Rupert! Apparently the only things that could save him from bank-rupertcy were our dollars.

I sure as hell didn't wish upon a star to fall for a Vampyre.(Forsaken- A Velicious Novel)

Every girl needs a shoe that goes with nothing and therefore goes with everything.

I didn't think Comfort and Joy was going to be a box-office smash.

For me, it feels like my ideas are more specific to random thoughts or single ideas I might have, as opposed to being influenced by a general perception of absurdity.

Continued inflation inevitably leads to catastrophe.

I never got into The Jetsons too much.

The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed... They're all inside me somewhere.

[Sexual abuse] is such a sharp, potent topic that we really should have discussions about more openly and more often.

Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.