Virtue does not truly reward her votary if she leaves him sad and half doubtful whether it would not have been better to serve vice.

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.

How do you ever hold on to anybody?

objectivity is subjective

Love can only be generated from the depths of the human heart

Without eliminating the fog in your mind, you won’t be able to see clearly! And how can you eliminate this fog? How can you liberate your mind? Just open your mind to the winds of all ideas!

I used to joke I was a point-and-click actor. My whole process has been about trusting your instincts and hitting your mark.

It's like a kid standing at the window watching the rain.

Even the most radical Islamic terrorist would not want to see the revered holy city of Medina go up. It would be like losing the Vatican in Rome.

Democracy tends to be a collaborative process, a committee, a consensus.

In the early days of the Mormon Church, stewardship toward the land was a priority. It was a matter of survival in the desert.

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.