There stands the shadow of a glorious name.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life

Poverty, the mother of manhood. Also, the mother of prostitution.

The abode of God, too, is wherever is earth and sea and air, and sky and virtue. Why further do we seek the Gods of heaven? Whatever thou dost behold and whatever thou dost touch, that is Jupiter.

As far as the stars are from the earth, and as different as fire is from water, so much do self-interest and integrity differ.

The prosperous man does not know whether he is loved.

An idle life always produces varied inclinations.

Not a stone but has its history.

A crime which is the crime of many none avenge.

As great edifices collapse of their own weight, so Heaven sets a similar limit to the growth of prosperous states.

Thus each person by his fears gives wings to rumor, and, without any real source of apprehension, men fear what they themselves have imagined.

Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient.

Ideals are thoughts. So long as they exist merely as thoughts, the power in them remains ineffective.

Knowledge is only one ingredient on arriving at a stock's proper price. The other ingredient, fully as important as information, is sound judgment.

I was going to go to Macchu Picchu and then I just ended up working the whole year.

Sooner would be better than later, and now would be better than sooner." - Tyrion

You can write better about a place you've seen for yourself. You don't have to have been there - I've sure written about places I've never seen - but it does help.

Christ was a Jew, and God, he is supposed to have made the universe. That's a little far-fetched because if God made the world, who made God?

At the end, we're kind of observers - creative people, I mean. I feel like an observer, and I'm pretty much able to step out of things and see how things are playing out.

Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.