No one ever suddenly became depraved.

The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

The arrows are from her dowry.

The abject pleasure of an abject mind And hence so dear to poor weak woman kind. [Lat., Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet, quam femina.]

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.

Quis costodiet ipsos custodies? (Who will watch the watchers?)

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

And hope is but a dream of those that wake.

I don't want to be another Jordan, Magic, or Isiah. When my career is over, I want to be able to look in the mirror and say 'I did it my way'.

The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.

When a plane lands in the Hudson and there's a Twitter user on the ferry taking a picture of it, Boom. That's it. The water is still splashing. Here's the photo of the thing.

People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.

He's not going to shoot us in the back by accident, is he?" Deputy Coltrain asked. I smiled, not sweetly. "He promised not to.

Give your problems to Christ before your problems get to you.

You must never name the goal. You must never tell us the target you're hitting for. You must automatically go toward it without ever naming it.

I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter the conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner of the world.

The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy.