Why don't they teach logic at these schools?

There's not much point in finding a magic ring that lets you into other worlds if you're afraid to look at them when you've got there.

It's all in Plato, all in Plato: bless me, what do they teach them at those schools!

The weak makes excuses, the strong makes changes.

We're all going to change. Otherwise, it's boring.

One's attitude towards oneself is the single most important factor in healing and staying well.

Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.

As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.

The spirit of the year, like bacchant crowned, With lighted torch goes careless on his way; And soon bursts into flame the maple's spray, And vines are running fire along the ground.

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Because I had sought to challenge Destiny, Destiny had taken vengeance.

We all have our down days, but it's not hard to smile and say thank you.