If extravagance were a fault, it would not have a place in the festivals of the gods.

It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted.

Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit.

You can best reward a liar by believing nothing of what he says.

The vice lies not in entering the bordello but in not coming out.

Those that study particular sciences, and neglect philosophy, are like Penelope's wooers, that make love to the waiting women.

Good cheer is no hindrance to a good life.

He offered her the world. She said she had her own.

His dad said even the cavemen had geniuses among them. Somebody had thought up the wheel.

We come and we cry and that is life we yawn and we depart and that is death!

I'm quite good, though I say it myself, at making strangers feel at ease.

We torment ourselves rather to make it appear that we are happy than to become so.

The best revenge is, of course, a good life. Enjoy yourself, be happy, be successful. It'll drive them crazy-or you can imagine it does. You'll feel so good you won't care.

I started being me about the songs, not writing objectively, but subjectively. I think it was Dylan who helped me realize that - not by any discussion or anything, but by hearing his work.

I'd love to try and get a summer and winter gold medal-that would be amazing.

There's a fascination frantic in a ruin that's romantic.

...she woke up in time to see the sun sending up spies ahead of him to mark out the road through the dark. He peeped up over the door sill of the world and made a little foolishness with red.