Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable

Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

Oh, look at me! I'm making people happy! I'm the Magical Man from Happy-Land, in a gumdrop house on Lollipop Lane! Oh, by the way, I was being sarcastic.

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

After the event, even a fool is wise.

You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.

Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

The son of Saturn gave The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls Upon the Sovereign One's immortal head Were shaken, and with them the mighty mount, Olympus trembled.

One must feel fear without allowing fear to control them.

Political scientists and professors are the new clergy

The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

The greatest betrayal is betraying yourself.

Islam is a peaceful religion.

Novels tell us the most truth about life: what it is, how we live it, what it might be for, how we enjoy and value it, and how we lose it.

Where I'm coming from is that nothing I do is from a sense of obligation.

To my God a heart of flame; To my fellow man a heart of love; To myself a heart of steel.

It's all right to agree or disagree on the balanced budget amendment. It's all right to talk about how we're going to appropriate.

Never being, but always at the edge of Being.