A magical universe was so terrifying because it was so irrational. There was no cause and effect anywhere.

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

Noble self-restraint must have something to restrain.

Very few great artists feel the giant agony of the world.

The Greeks were realists. They saw the beauty of common things and were content with it.

The author determines that the bitterest struggles are for one side of the truth to the suppression of the other side.

A man without fear cannot be a slave.

Besides Zeus on his throne, Justice has her seat.

Liberty depends on self-restraint. Freedom is freedom only when controlled and limited.

Tragedy cannot take place around a type. Suffering is the most individualizing thing on earth.

You learn a lot by reading and even more by sharing.

Is it painful?" the groundskeeper asked. "I am asking for science.

I wasn’t sure how I felt about there being another me sharing space in the universe. Would I even like myself?

No man is a hero to his own wife no woman is a wife to her own hero.

You could be the tastiest, most juiciest, most delicious peach out there in the world; there's still going to be people out there who don't like peaches .

I read "Remembrance of Things Past" in the original French. I never start the day without reading me some [Marcel] Proust.

Summer is very precious.

In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.

The US is to an unusual extent a business-run society, where short-term concerns of profit and market share displace rational planning.

Mary's light is like that of the moon, totally reflected from the sun, the Son of God.