Gardens can be sharp and spiky as well as rose-embowered and honeysuckle-twined: there are corners and settings where thistles are not such an asinine taste after all.

Alexander was not the first Greek to be honoured as a god for political favour.

Among the conservative Greek opinion there would be no regrets that Alexander the Greek leader was invading the barbarians.

And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!

The more you Learn, The more you earn

Ignorance is the toughest enemy of humans. It is most disastrous.

If life can remove someone you never wanted to lose, it can replace them with someone you never dreamed of wanting.

You can take the guy out of the neighborhood but you can't take the neighborhood out of the guy.

I have one passion. It is He, only He.

I think, and a lot of that has to do with where I grew up in California; [status] isn't something I think about that much.

All consciousness is consciousness of something: in thinking I am aware that my thought is 'pointing towards' some object.

From beginning to end Wilde performed his life and continued to do so even after fame had taken the plot out of his own hands.