It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.

Happiness lies, first of all, in health.

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.

I walked beside the evening sea And dreamed a dream that could not be; The waves that plunged along the shore Said only: "Dreamer, dream no more!"

Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.

Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.

There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.

I thought having a chronic illness would make my life detour in ways I didn't want to accept, but I've learnt that have a chronic illness made the only detours that are worth the growth.

There is pain and suffering in this world, but there is also joy, and not just suffering here and joy there, but suffering and joy in the very same place.

Death is the principal limitator of opportunities, progress & life.

Considering the fortune you might have lost you'll have to admit you're rich already.

Suspend for a moment your disbelief and encounter once again the sense of wonder you knew when there was... magic!

Everything is in place to have a peaceful Games.

The whole object of comedy is to be yourself and the closer you get to that, the funnier you will be.

If someone wants to give me the lead in anyone of those films, and deal with those other complications, terrific, Im ready for them.

Either we figure out how to keep corporate cash out of the political system or we lose the democracy.