People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants.

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

Life, for all its agonies...is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing...and whatever is to come after it -- we shall not have this life again.

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. One who trusts nobody will not trust sycophants. One who does not value real glory will not value its counterfeit.

Finesse is the best adaptation of means to circumstances.

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

So they left the subject and played croquet, which is a very good game for people who are annoyed with one another, giving many opportunities for venting rancor.

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street.

Revenge. Justice. Love. They are the three stories that all other stories are made up of. It's the trifecta.

Prayer is powerful, but if our prayers are aimless, meaningless, and mingled with doubt, they will be of little hope to us.

If love is a battlefield and we all get scars....These were my reminders…my necessary thorns.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

Everyone has secrets. Especially me.

Glory to the heroic soldiers of the Korean People's Army!

I'm always friendly and encouraging on set. I want people to be at their best creatively.

I'm weirdly flexible, so when I dance, I dance like a 17-year-old girl.

The 'ER' role was not Asian-specific, and my agent knew that I loved the show.