They were the first Westerners. The spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery; and the place of the Greeks is in the modern world.

Love cannot live where there is no trust.

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful ... was a mark of the Greek spirit.

The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.

..,No love cannot leave where there is no trust..,~cupid and psyche..,"Greek mythology of Edith Hamilton

Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.

A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.

It is not hard work that is dreary; it is superficial work.

The energy of life is force of faith.

Find comfort in questioning yourself.

Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.

Metaphysics is a science.

My perspective on my mother has changed immensely. She was a lot taller when I was younger.

I had an empathy for prisoners and did concerts for them back when I thought that it would make a difference - you know? - that they really were there to be rehabilitated.

It is with considerable difficulty that I remember the original era of my being

My great crime wasn't refusing to represent an innocent man; my great crime was imagining that there was some path to racial justice that did not include those we view as 'guilty'.

Americans are not getting screwed by the Republican Party. They're getting screwed by the large corporations that bought and own the Republican Party.

At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other.