Political success in Athens seemed to depend on having a party, and there seemed now to be no party with whom an honorable man could connect himself.

Life is always at some turning point.

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, a symbol rather than reason by which men are moved.

The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure.

Sophistication demands honesty; it does not require ill temper.

The contemporary hero, the mythical pattern in the imitation of whom we would live, remains as yet undefined. We have no hero; what is more to the point, we suspect hero worship.

The discovery that the universe has no purpose need not prevent a human being from having one.

Many of our newly smart would rather be found murdering their children than being kind to their parents. They would prefer to be damned for rudeness than to be snickered at for courtesy.

The outlook for our country lies in the quality of its idleness.

God may still be in His Heaven, but there is more than sufficient evidence that all is not right with the world.

To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality.

Your loss, serves as a stark reminder that, although I feel so alone—I am not alone.

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.

The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.

I take my job very seriously and I work the best that I can on every drum that I hit. I want all the drums and cymbals to sound the best. I strive for perfection and I won't take anything less.

The sicknesses of the soul have their ups and downs like those of the body; what we take to be a cure is most often merely a respite or change of disease.

The military is faithful to the constitution. They will come in only to protect the people from the enemies of the state.

Genuine sorrows are very tranquil in appearance in the deep bed they have dug for themselves. But, seeming to slumber, they corrode the soul like that frightful acid which penetrates crystal.

Life is something to be done, and so is drama.

What really binds men together is their culture, the ideas and the standards they have in common.

Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting, drawing, or music, I can write software.