If appearances are deceitful, then they do not deserve any confidence when they assert what appears to them to be true.

Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue.

As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess.

There is a written and an unwritten law. The one by which we regulate our constitutions in our cities is the written law; that which arises from customs is the unwritten law.

Bury me on my face," said Diogenes; and when he was asked why, he replied, "Because in a little while everything will be turned upside down.

Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the same from every place.

Diogenes, when asked from what country he came, replied, "I am a citizen of the world."

He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.

Sacrifice to the Graces.

Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust.

Aristippus being asked what were the most necessary things for well-born boys to learn, said, "Those things which they will put in practice when they become men.

I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names.

The '80s was all about this idea that women could have it all. You could have a career, and you could have a husband, and you could have children.

I spend a lot of time in preproduction working with authors, and a lot of time in postproduction.: editing, music, all that sort of stuff. Casting. On the set there's not a lot for me to do.

You can always add something to a bike, but you come to a point where you can’t take anything away and that's a fixed gear bike

You read so much about the healing power of memoir, but you don't read about the wounding power it has first. The recollection of past events is not, in and of itself, therapeutic.

Every band I've been in, it's just become my total life. I feel like a child star - I've missed out on so much.

Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is a rather rough translation of the book they'd intended to write.

I think good ideas are usually better done quickly than slowly.

Every team member who brings intelligence, experience and passion to their creations should be called an artist or designer.

England, Australia, Israel, a few staunch, important allies internationally. But we have lost a lot of international support.