Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.

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.

Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle.

One of the peculiar children's perspective out of time allows him to take minute interest in every resident of the town and to chronicle everything we did for the entire day he lives over and over.

1980's: not a time period but a state of mind.

I love playing strong feisty women, I really do, but if you were to ask my husband he'd probably say that I'm very insecure. And actually incredibly malleable, which isn't necessarily a good thing.

Perhaps, I myself am the enemy who needs to be loved.

We live in a culture where everything tastes good but nothing satisfies.

With me it was that defending the Communist Party was something worse than naming the names.

This party spirit has so ill an effect on our morals, it has likewise a very great one upon our judgments.

... within every form of oppression lies the seeds of liberation.

You can not plan to make a discovery. You do not plan innovation.