If to die honorably is the greatest Part of virtue, for us fate's done her best. Because we fought to crown Greece with freedom We lie here enjoying timeless fame.

A man gains no possession better than a good woman, nothing more horrible than a bad one.

Difficult, say you? Difficult to be a man of virtue, truly good, shaped and fashioned without flaw in the perfect figure of four-squared excellence, in body and mind, in act and thought?

We did not flinch but gave our lives to save Greece when her fate hung on a razor's edge.

Of earth's goods, the best is a good wife; a bad, the bitterest curse of human life.

Not even the gods fight against necessity.

It is hard to be truly excellent, four-square in hand and foot and mind, formed without blemish.

What is life without the joy of Love?

There's no joy even in beautiful Wisdom, unless one have holy Health.

Man's strength is but little, and futile his concerns.

The gods do not fight against necessity.

If you think you have to step outside your integrity to live your dream

It made me realize that Beatrice had changed

That's the problem with memories: you can visit them but you can't live with them.

I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.

I used to be very disciplined about only buying three books ahead of what I was reading, but my husband corrupted me, and now I'm dozens ahead of myself!

It was both exciting and frustrating to work with an orchestral group.

Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality.

The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.

Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect.

Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it.