If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.

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.

What should be boundless is one's love of life, not one's love of art or knowledge.

Not smoking is not an achievement. Like virginity, it comes standard.

The dear, stupid body is as easily satisfied as a spaniel.

Eating is one of the great beauties in life. One of my favorite recreations... eating with friends, the service, the ambience.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Those who have known freedom and then lost it, have never known it again

Like a blinking cursor on an empty page, it was just the first thing. The beginning of the beginning. But at least it was done.

Without passion, there is no genius.

I didn't look at any of the newspapers, I look at the pictures sometimes, but apart from that I don't read them.

I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or wake at night alone, I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again, I am to see to it that I do not lose you.