To speak his thoughts is every freeman's right, in peace and war, in council and in fight.

Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

Oh, look at me! I'm making people happy! I'm the Magical Man from Happy-Land, in a gumdrop house on Lollipop Lane! Oh, by the way, I was being sarcastic.

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

After the event, even a fool is wise.

You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.

Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

The son of Saturn gave The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls Upon the Sovereign One's immortal head Were shaken, and with them the mighty mount, Olympus trembled.

The more you know the more you need to learn.

Most mistakes in philosophy and logic occur because the human mind is apt to take the symbol for the reality.

I have two moods. One is Roy, rollicking Roy, the wild ride of a mood. And Pam, sediment Pam, who stands on the shore and sobs... Sometimes the tide is in, sometimes it's out.

We're the highest taxed in the world, we're the highest taxed country right now, and it's not even close.

There are some people who do not have a wild past because being wild would make them terribly self-conscious and uncomfortable.

Poems are always interested in what Ivan Illich called 'shadow work,' not least because that is no small part of their own way of working.

I'm not for the parties. I'm for Texas.

Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.

There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.

The king's name is a tower of strength.