Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!

A winner is just a loser who tried one more time.

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.

We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.

If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.

Practice, the master of all things.

Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.

The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind.

The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.

What is done well is done quickly enough.

The world is waiting to see what the church has to offer to this troubled society

How much good it would do if one could exterminate the human race.

Who is in your life asking you the tough questions?

Most climbers aren't in fact deranged, they're just infected with a particularly virulent strain of the Human Condition.

The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.

I doubt trees are ever told to 'be the screwed-up ninth-grader.'

Most artists have experienced the creative block. We get stuck in our work. We beat our head against the wall: nothing. Sometimes, it is because we are trying something at the wrong time.

I actually consider myself as totally privileged to be able to serve science and medicine in a global fashion, because science and medicine know no boundaries.

Let a gentleman be known to have been cheated of twenty pounds, and it costs him forty a-year for the remainder of his life.

What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his doublet and hose and leaves off his wit!