And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

In war, truth is the first casualty.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

The air is Zeus, Zeus earth, and Zeus the heaven, Zeus all that is, and what transcends them all.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

War is hell and waiting is hell and war is waiting.

When we're together, " he whispered, "we'll only see each other, not the ugliness around us.

So I became the wanderer and wandering became my destiny!

Our self-image strongly held essentially determines what we become.

There were times that I would be drunk and just leave a place by myself because I had an impulse and wasn't thinking through the repercussions on others.

Looking hard for a drive in, searching for a corner cafe, where the hamburgers sizzle on an open grill night and day.

I did love horror films from the '70s and '80s. That was my sweet spot.

Fashionably amusing table manners are a matter of breaking the right rule at the right time.

It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood.

I have read somewhere that in a totalitarian system martyrdom does better than thought.