This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.

The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

The arrows are from her dowry.

The abject pleasure of an abject mind And hence so dear to poor weak woman kind. [Lat., Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet, quam femina.]

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.

Quis costodiet ipsos custodies? (Who will watch the watchers?)

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Generation is the Important factor, of the Growth of Ideas.

I thought that, with so much current attention focused on the topic of North Korea, I might share what I think are three books which cast a rare light on the elusive realm of North Korea.

The reading public isn't born that doesn't think foreigners are either funny or faintly sinister.

... it is always the men we won't allow to make love to us, who take our characters away.

Immersed in solitude, he would dream or read far into the night. By protracted contemplation of the same thoughts, his mind grew sharp, his vague, undeveloped ideas took on form.

Popular music sucks so bad right now.

On Halloween, witches come true; Wild ghosts escape from dreams. Each monster dances in the park.

You can always get better. Nobody can stop you from getting better, and nobody can stop you from trying to make something right.

In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.

As long as hunger exists, peace cannot prevail.