Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.

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.

He loved her when she was angry. And he was convinced it was because she was her most honest in those moments. ~Ruin

think about yourself because selfishness is everywhere

I was never a child actor. I was a child performer.

If I cover my head with my hands, it means deny the ball to the opponent's ball handler.

Very often history is a means of denying the past.

The work I'm doing on 'Watchmen' is mind bending and physically just hard.

Shut your damn mouth.

I've trained all my life not to be distracted by distractions.

The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm.

We have chosen Mahomet not as the most eminent Prophet; but as the one we are freest to speak of. He is by no means the truest of Prophets; but I do esteem him a true one.