A human being is only breath and shadow.

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.

Not the reality, but your thoughts define your destiny.

What is reality today was but a dream and an imagination not that long ago.

This was never about the money... Don't you understand? A world without good art is a far more dangerous place than one you don't get paid for making it in.

A realist is a slave to reality.

The Socratic demonstration of the ultimate unity of tragic and comic drama is forever lost. But the proof is in the art of Chekhov.

I spent one night in the hospital in my life. I was past 75 when that occurred.

I have a love factor with the minorities.

Only a lunatic would want to be president. These lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over.

Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience.

We always learn more from the losing than the winning.