Lay ye down the golden chain From Heaven, and pull at its inferior links Both Goddesses and Gods.

Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

Oh, look at me! I'm making people happy! I'm the Magical Man from Happy-Land, in a gumdrop house on Lollipop Lane! Oh, by the way, I was being sarcastic.

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

After the event, even a fool is wise.

You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.

Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

The son of Saturn gave The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls Upon the Sovereign One's immortal head Were shaken, and with them the mighty mount, Olympus trembled.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

You can gain power by avoidance. You can gain power by doing certain things. You can gain much more power by meditating.

If you want me to believe in your redeemer, you are going to have to look a lot more redeemed.

Tis a petty kind of fame At best, that comes of making violins; And saves no masses, either. Thou wilt go To purgatory none the less.

The woods would be quiet if no bird sang but the one that sang best.

I do mostly British projects, and for family reasons and life reasons Britain's my home, where I have a lovely garden.

Someone accompanies every soul from the other side when it enters this place. Usually it is an ancestor with whom that child shares traits and gifts

Rightly or wrongly, most Americans look at mortgage equity withdrawal as the closest thing to a free lunch.

Always remember that as long as other people are gullible, there's no limit to what you can achieve.