But when the dust has drunk the blood of men, no resurrection comes for one who's dead.

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.

I have a Twitter handle, but I never sign on.

Animals look at people the way people look at people that might mug them.

Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs.

I believe every childhood should be magical.

The unequal distribution of food is one of the world's most tragic facts. Millions of people die because they have too little to eat, and many die because they have too much.

Excellence nourishes the soul.

I want the standard of living in Iran in ten years' time to be exactly on a level with that in Europe today. In twenty years' time we shall be ahead of the United States.

Take the American declaration of Independence. It contains no mention of territorial limits. We are not obliged to fix the limits of the State.

If you are creative, you must be dissident.

To me, the Virgen de Guadalupe is just a vessel for me to recognize my own God within myself.