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

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!"

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.

Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.

Life isn't a book. There's no guarantee of a happy ending.

Procrastination is also a subtle act of corruption – it corrupts valuable time

I do look for the good in everyone. I also give them a chance to be their best, and I try to cope with my disappointment when they're not

A goatee is to beards what diamonds are to ornaments.

Every system has it's own fall.

Food is the very heart of freedom. How can people be free if they can't feed themselves without getting sued for patent violations?

There's actually something interesting about having no rehearsal time - you have to just walk in and go with your gut, which is exciting.

The best fish in the world are of course those one catches oneself.

A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza; the plaza is the commercial version. A piazza is an empty space with no function. This is what Europeans understand.

Reading is alive and well and will get more alive and more well. Reading on tablets (or whatever the next tech device will be) is the future - and the future is now.