How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Love is the crowning grace of humanity.

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.

Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.

Man has not a greater enemy than himself.

It is better to will the good than to know the truth.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.

Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.

It's a symbiotic process, writing. What I am makes the books—not part of me, all of me—and then the books themselves inform the sense of what I am. So the more I can be, the better the books will be.

Just because you're sober, don't think you're a good driver, Cookie.

Most coaches study the films when they lose. I study them when we win -to see if I can figure out what I did right

Heck, what's a little extortion among friends?

Get the advice of everybody whose advice is worth having - they are very few - and then do what you think best yourself.

Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental.

I have suggested that scientific progress requires a favorable environment.

It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.

To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing in life-in my case, dancing.

We want an ensemble of stars, not comets.