Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.

A winner is just a loser who tried one more time.

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.

We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.

If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.

Practice, the master of all things.

Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.

The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind.

The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.

What is done well is done quickly enough.

Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.

It was as if someone had leftthe bird thereas a kind of telegramof feathers, oily feathersthat looked like they’d struggled, shuttered a little before letting gointo flightforever.

The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose.

Great liars are also great magicians.

I paint flowers to prevent them from dying

We’ve all got to worry some-but we can’t let it conquer us. Instead, let it alarm us.

My singing technique is really strong and I have to thank my teachers for really instilling a sense of discipline about how to sing properly and how to maintain your voice in a run.

History is not only a particular branch of knowledge, but a particular mode and method of knowledge in other branches.

Submission is the willingness to give up our right to ourselves, to freely surrender our insistence on having our own way all the time.

The clustering of technological innovation in time and space helps explain both the uneven growth among nations and the rise and decline of hegemonic powers.