To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.

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.

I know what that does to a man, to walk the earth with the burden of his sin on his back. It poisons all he touches.

We all perform. It's what we do for each other all the time, deliberately or unintionally. It's a way of telling about ourselves in the hope of being recognized as what we'd like to be.--PERFORMANCE

Take a pinch of snuff, doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over you in your example.

Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do

There are no small steps in great affairs.

It means everything for me to serve as the CEO of a convention.

What I keep searching for in movies, more and more, is the right gravity.

And leadership then is about mobilizing and engaging the people with the problem rather than trying to anesthetize them so you can go off and solve it on your own.

I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass.

A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children." from chapter VIII of Les Miserables