The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

Always desire to learn something useful

Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.

There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

If I could store lightnings in jars, I'd sell them to sick fireflies to light their way. Only they have nothing to pay for it with but life.

Who could be like him? Who could ever be like you? Each of us has his path. They run close together sometimes—for life, if we are fortunate—but they never cross.

I'm convinced that in a healthy society, artistic norms should be constantly under question which is not of course, to deny the need for continuity.

Skating is in my heart, not my head

Helpless lust and unreasoning anxiety were just part of growing up.

The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered.

Modesty is great, and quietness is nice, but sometimes it's much more fun to be decadent.

London underground took me on a tour of all the hidden places, the disused shafts and staircases... that was very interesting.

These global warming studies [are] a bunch of snake oil science.

I think democracy is the most revolutionary thing in the world, because if you have power you use it to meet the needs of you and your community.