Report uttered by the people is everywhere of great power.

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

In war, truth is the first casualty.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

The air is Zeus, Zeus earth, and Zeus the heaven, Zeus all that is, and what transcends them all.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

Hate is loud. Love, however, is so pleasantly felt it has no need to be heard.

Sometimes you can look back on times in your life and know that God was guiding you even when you didn't know you were supposed to be listening.

Rest and repose are as much a part of life’s journeys as seeing all we came to see.

My two kids take a lot of my focus, which I'm grateful for.

Thank God genuine video phones hadn't been invented. I hadn't even grabbed a towel. Ford Prefect would despair of me.

Famously, the CIA is somewhere where marriages hardly ever last because it's obviously such a strange lifestyle.

To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss.

Consistency shows value. It breeds trust. You know that I'm going to show up every week.

Obviously my career's important to me and I'm really, really passionate about trying to keep it.

Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry healing. Poetry does it more intensely.