Ignorant men differ from beasts only in their figure.

The Fates guide the person who accepts them and hinder the person who resists them.

Lead me, Zeus, and you, Fate, wherever you have assigned me. I shall follow without hesitation; but even if I am disobedient and do not wish to, I shall follow no less surely.

He needs little who desires but little.

Skill gives you legs to jog, talent gives you legs to run, brilliance gives you legs to sprint, but genius gives you wings to fly.

I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.

Creating something new is the difficult part. To make it and build it and get everyone to follow? Amazing.

To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful and delightful to live in, was a mark of the Greek spirit which distinguished it from all that had gone before. It is a vital distinction.

I am an enemy of the State. But isn't everyone?

If you're a leading actor you don't work with another actor. You work with a lady.

I think you see more of like, the party side of me, which I call Snooki, it's kind of my alter ego.

I not only knew I wanted to go into retailing, I also knew I wanted to go into business for myself.

I don't look to play people that are familiar. I look to play people that are different, challenge, unknown, foreign, and therefore scary.

An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.