Hatred also is short lived; but that which makes the splendor of the present and the glory of the future remains forever unforgotten here we bless your simplicity but do not envy your folly.

The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

We must remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.

Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and respect of self, in turn, is the chief element in courage.

Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.

You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.

When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.

We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing

Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.

Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.

Getting an early education and then continuing it throughout life is a brilliant way to achieve success and live a purposeful life.

One was Texas medicine, the other was just railroad gin, and like a fool I mixed them.

It's not how I view being a salesman. It's how I live being a salesman.

But to say that the race is the metaphor for the life is to miss the point. The race is everything. It obliterates whatever isn't racing. Life is the metaphor for the race.

Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

The more you look at 'common knowledge', the more you realise that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge. No real knowledge is common.

We are too connected. There's noise in our heads all the time.

Let's start with where you are,' he said. 'You're here.' Taking her hand, he pressed it to his chest above his heart.

I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.

Turbulence is the most important unsolved problem of classical physics.