The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

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.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Thought is free.

Comparison is the enemy to creativity.

If you don’t take control of yourcareer development, it’s highly unlikely that anyone else will!

Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.

While there continues to be differences, the important point is that all citizens and elected officials use democratic and legal avenues for solving those differences.

If all of mathematics disappeared, physics would be set back by exactly one week.

For me personally, to hop onboard and use the amazing success and blessings in my life to pull off something like the 30/30 Project is awesome.

Sneezes ... always sound much louder to the sneezer than to the hearers. It is an acoustical peculiarity.

our real fears are the sounds of footsteps walking in the corridors of our minds, and the anxieties, the phantom floatings, they create.