There is a negative proof of the value of Latin: No one seems to boast of not knowing it.

What lasts is what is written. We look to literature to find the essence of an age.

What is important-what lasts-in another language is not what is said but what is written. For the essence of an age, we look to its poetry and its prose, not its talk shows.

One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, "Have a nice day."

...a world where a sparrow's fate and that of a man can be decided in the blink of a cat's eye, such is the true measure of time.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

The rise of the Soviet school to the summit of world chess is a logical result of socialist cultural development.

I think it's kind of great, to be honest. I'll never do another film [like Swiss Army Man] where I get to talk about those things, so I might as well enjoy it while I can.

Belief, confidence in yourself.. the world’s your playground. Limitless. My question is... will you be remembered?

Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)

Crackers!” said Dumbledore enthusiastically, offering the end of a large silver noisemaker to Snape, who took it reluctantly.

You've got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever "the old" means for you.

In life we have many disappointments. Those who go on to greater things dwell on the disappointments briefly and then move on