The temper of mind that sees tragedy in life has not for its opposite the temper that sees joy. The opposite pole to the tragic view of life is the sordid view.

Love cannot live where there is no trust.

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful ... was a mark of the Greek spirit.

The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.

..,No love cannot leave where there is no trust..,~cupid and psyche..,"Greek mythology of Edith Hamilton

Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.

A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.

It is not hard work that is dreary; it is superficial work.

The Russian soul is a dark place.

As we fell in Adam, we are saved in Christ. To deny the principle in the one case, is to deny it in the other; for the two are inseparably united in the representations of Scripture

When you like something, you should do it all night long.

Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.

There is a wisdom in the wave - high-born, beautiful - for those who would but paddle out.

The right to express our thoughts means something only if we are able to have thoughts of our own

My tombstone would someday read I died keeled over at my computer writing a screenplay or a business plan.

I've never met a truly creative person who was happy and satisfied with life.

There is something basic about protecting land by taking it off the market. People should be able to enjoy where they live while at the same time protect the plants and animals around them.

A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.