Let each man have the wit to go his own way.

Let's give the historians something to write about

No rival will steal away my sure love; that glory will be my gray hair.

By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.

Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?

Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.

Love is fostered by confidence and constancy; he who is able to give much is able also to love much.

I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength.

Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.

Even if my strength should fail, my daring will win me praise: in might enterprises even the will to succeed is enough.

The eyes are the pioneers that first announce the soft tale of love.

Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further.

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.

I've always been really active. I grew up playing sports, so I'm always shooting hoops or throwing the football with my friends. I'm super-active in that sense.

To me love is passionate, it is honest, and it is selfless.

During high school I worked in a retirement home. I spent many wonderful hours hearing from service men and their widows about WWI.

Music is about communication... it isn't just something that maybe physically sounds good or orally sounds interesting; it's something far, far deeper than that.

Those who are afraid of death will carry it on their shoulders.

I grew up going to the movies, not watching them on television, so I'm still a bit resistant to TV as a medium.

I started natural farming after the war with just one small plot, but gradually I acquired additional acreage by taking over surrounding pieces of abandoned land and caring for them by hand.

I’d rather marry my husband in the stage where I know what I’m getting into and what it’s going to be like for our life together.