Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

Red lips like a living, laughing rose.

Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.

For this is wisdom: to live, to take what fate, or the Gods, may give.

I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name.

He who shares the danger ought to share the prize.

When you’re at the beginning, don’t obsess about the middle, because the middle is going to look different once you get there.

However gemlike mathematical truths may be, research is but a human endeavor.

What creates a writer is huge, psychological dysfunction.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well.

I went to a number of women's groups and said, "Can you help us find folks," and they brought us whole binders full of women.

Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible.

We as a church don't have a mission. The mission has a Church.

Don't be so fast, you're all you've got.

Oh, yeah, I do movies; I forgot. They see them on TV. I forget that anybody knows me