O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.

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.

It is better to be alone then to be in a relationship, while you are trying to figure out what love means to you.

Here is a list for you - things I want to do with you:Love youLaughMake love with youLaughCook with youEat youLove youLaughDrink great wineLove you, always.

Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.

I've been fortunate enough to travel the world because of my career, but the downside has been spending long spells apart from my daughters.

Be mindful, exercise kindness, to yourselves, to each other.

Get all the crap out of your diet, just do it right for a week. Then just see what can happen.

The stage has a certain discipline. But the ultimate standard is more exacting in film, because you have to see yourself and you are your own toughest critic.

Social climbing and power climbing -- the two are often synonymous -- are what make Washington run. ... If there are more than two people together, if there are three, one of them is climbing.

I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time

I don’t think of dying, I think of being here now.