Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.

Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

By words the mind is winged.

Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder--no matter how old you became and how much you'd seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered.

The saying goes that for a wound caused by dog bite to heal you have to eat that same dog, and I did scoop up a mouthful for myself

Make time daily for your well-being.

One master defines Zen as the art of feeling the polar star in the southern sky. Truth can be reached only through the comprehension of opposites.

We don't appreciate the value of humor sometimes.

Matt Bomer and I went to Carnegie Mellon for drama together.

My mother had a radio show - a Barbara Walters type of gal and was very successful for about 20-some years on a radio station.

There are no circumstances imaginable, not even victory, under which the proletariat should give up its possession of arms.

If we are ready to tear down the walls that confine us, break the cage that imprisons us, we will discover what our wings are for.

For society, of all places I have ever been, Norwich is the best.