It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

In war, truth is the first casualty.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

The air is Zeus, Zeus earth, and Zeus the heaven, Zeus all that is, and what transcends them all.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, why did God invent captions?

I get a little poetic sometimes. The moonlight does that to me.

The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life.... Just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

Texts and e-mails travel no faster than phone calls and telegrams, and their content isn't necessarily richer or poorer.

It's not the meaning of life we seek but our aliveness. Once we have that, the meaning of life is obvious.

Only six electronic digital computers would be required to satisfy the computing needs of the entire United States.

Maybe I'm regular and the world needs to adjust?

It seemed clear to me early on that one of the things a photograph could do was make a reality, and I wanted to do that. I always think of looking inside an Easter egg and seeing a perfect world.

He grinned. “That’s because pixies are ever-after. We’re magic, baby. Just ask Matalina.