The Greeks were realists. They saw the beauty of common things and were content with it.

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

Noble self-restraint must have something to restrain.

Very few great artists feel the giant agony of the world.

The author determines that the bitterest struggles are for one side of the truth to the suppression of the other side.

A man without fear cannot be a slave.

Besides Zeus on his throne, Justice has her seat.

Liberty depends on self-restraint. Freedom is freedom only when controlled and limited.

Tragedy cannot take place around a type. Suffering is the most individualizing thing on earth.

A magical universe was so terrifying because it was so irrational. There was no cause and effect anywhere.

The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes.

For while directly we say that it [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground.

Sounds of Time rattles the silence of Reality. An illusion pierces through similar existence and creates a conflict zone.

He was the mildest manner'd man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat.

People would like better batteries but they are wary of making investments. What is required is both a technology push and a market pull.

We are all meant to be naturalists, each in his own degree, and it is inexcusable to live in a world so full of the marvels of plant and animal life and to care for none of these things.

When all you've got is a hammer, bad service looks like a nail.

You can believe in women's rights without believing that every woman is right.

The only thing I really get snobby about is - not food or wine or certainly not television - I would say I get snobby about skin-care regimens and people taking care of their skin in the right way.

In the '80s especially, a lot of comedians felt compelled to stick with what made them famous and those people became caricatures.