Even if my strength should fail, my daring will win me praise: in might enterprises even the will to succeed is enough.

Let's give the historians something to write about

No rival will steal away my sure love; that glory will be my gray hair.

By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.

Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?

Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.

Love is fostered by confidence and constancy; he who is able to give much is able also to love much.

Let each man have the wit to go his own way.

I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength.

Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.

The eyes are the pioneers that first announce the soft tale of love.

There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.

Of course there’s another choice, he thought. There is always another choice. I’m just not going to take it.

Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.

Obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken.

Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.

I started acting professionally at age 19.

No gun is perfectly true. So the marksman, that he may hit the bull's-eye, points elsewhere.

I still hold. . .that the suburbs ought to be either glorified by romance and religion or else destroyed by fire from heaven, or even by firebrands from the earth.

Self-promotion has never been a point, and I'm incredibly inept at self-promotion. Talking about myself is a little less inspiring than talking about the character.

Well what's in your Amazonian hope chest?