Always to be best, and distinguished above the rest.

Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

Oh, look at me! I'm making people happy! I'm the Magical Man from Happy-Land, in a gumdrop house on Lollipop Lane! Oh, by the way, I was being sarcastic.

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

After the event, even a fool is wise.

You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.

Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

The son of Saturn gave The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls Upon the Sovereign One's immortal head Were shaken, and with them the mighty mount, Olympus trembled.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

This is the first fall that I haven't gone to school. Maybe that's why I feel weird all the time.

I started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.

Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.

Education is the science of relations

No man must be superior to the things that are common to men.... Not only are we all in the same boat, but we are all seasick.

Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.

A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe, a book on a par with ancient talismans.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

Nothing quells anxiety like action!