It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.

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.

Songs edify the soul.

Language is the source of misunderstandings.

Let go of the attachment, keep the lesson

One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.

I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.

Whatever your life's pursuit -- art, poetry, sculpture, music, whatever your occupation may be -- you can be as spiritual as clergy, always living a life of praise.

If the thing is impossible, you need not trouble yourselves about it; if possible, try for it.

No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.

Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man.

The interesting thing about grief, I think, is that it is its own size. It is not the size of you. It is its own size. And grief comes to you.