Oh child, may you be happier than your father, but in all other respects alike. And then you would not be bad.

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.

Some bow to the spirit of collectivism, while you ascend to the spirit of your own eclectic rhythms.

Literature will save me it's the only certainty i am sure of.

All the parts of us that we ever were are always going to be with us. You make space to carry them and you just try not to let them drive. But you can't chuck them out either.

Eavesdropping is such a regular-person activity.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

Buying shoes is the highest form of shopping.

Politics is the art of making the people believe that they are in power, when in fact, they have none.

As Buddhism moved from one culture to another, it always adapted.

Some people you don't have to satirize, you just quote 'em.