How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that's wise

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

Always desire to learn something useful

Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.

There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

I'm looking into my past lives. I'm convinced some of them still owe me money.

The acts of observing and judging are necessarily solitary acts.

Every man even the most blessed needs a little more than average luck to survive this world.

Whatever concerns health is of real public interest.

Happy will it be for ourselves, and most honorable for human nature, if we have wisdom and virtue enough to set so glorious an example to mankind!

sarcasm and jokes were often the bottle in which clinical depressives sent out their most plangent screams for someone to care and help them.

Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity.

One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education.

You just have to determine to settle for nothing less than being FULLY ALIVE, to show up, be who you are, and share your gifts.

The filmmakers who I'm pining to work for aren't ringing my phone off the hook.