Action without study is fatal.

Fame is fickle. If the media turn against me, I will just have more time in the library. Not bad as a fate.

If being a decent soul is being maternal, then fine. I'll call it human.

Hunting, bathing, gaming, laughing: that's living (venari lavare ludere ridere occest vivere).

You must now go home, where everything -- you can be quite sure -- will be falser than here....You must go now. You'll leave by the right, through the alley....

Percy threw his arms around her. They kissed, and for a moment nothing else mattered. An asteroid could have hit the planet and wiped out all life, and Annabeth wouldn't have cared.

It's sad to see these old buildings go because they have so many memories, and it's a real personal kind of thing when you play these places. It's part of our history just gone.

I got into music via the competitions; the first time I ever performed was in a kind of rap battle, competing for money.

If you find here & now intolerable, you have options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally.

I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it - I think that's important.

Happiness lies in moments, and while you have it you're not even aware, only afterwards do you know you were happy.

Outside literature, high-flown sentiments are merely exasperating.

A king is sometimes obliged to commit crimes; but they are the crimes of his position.

I just kind of shoot the finger to the critics. I don't give sh - what a critic says. To me a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions.