Good things don't end in -eum; they end in -mania or -teria.

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.

Ifemelu thought about the expression "sweet girl." Sweet girl meant that, for a long time, Don had molded Ranyinudo into a malleable shape, or that she had allowed him to think he had.

Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.

I am lucky enough to live in Miami so dinner on the beach with people I love is one of my favorite ways to relax.

What we need is a machine that will let us see the other guy's point of view.

The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement was false.

Art is something out of the ordinary commenting on the ordinary.

The soul of a child is as complicated and full of contradictions as our soul is.

A waft of sweet hash drifted by, and I wanted to float after it like Wimpy levitating at the scent of a hamburger.

Nobody is "superior" to anybody else, only "different", that is all!

Wines are like women in that it's often the imperfections that fascinate.