The reward of suffering is experience

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.

LSD is simply an exploratory instrument like a microscope or telescope, except this one is inside of you instead of outside of you.

All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.

Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.

Much of the excitement we get out of our work is that we don't really know what we are doing.

My dream's simple..and does whatever it pleases. I'm just moving in the direction of Seung Jo who's at the center of it.

I remember things like that...A lifetimes accredidation of unkindness, all of those little longering hurts that I carried around like stones sewn into my pockets.

The black family unit that had survived 150 years of slavery was decimated in less than 30 years by welfare payments that stopped if the family structure remained intact.

I think the primary message to the world is that the United States is going to remain the strongest military power in the world.

Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away.