This was the Athenians' war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.

Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.

The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.

Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.

A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.

Adversity makes men remember God.

There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.

Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.

The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.

There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.

Great contests generally excite great animosities.

We are destroying all esthetic standards in the name of social justice.

Learn from the past, but don't live there, Plan the future, but don’t live there. Remember the Present is where we truly spend the rest of our lives.

What we fear comes to pass more speedily than what we hope.

If you mess something up, remember who got you there. Don't be pointing fingers, even if finger-pointing is called for. Only one you got to blame is your own self.

I was a child actor in radio, and there's not many of us left.

No soul can be forever banned, Eternally bereft, Whoever falls from God's right hand Is caught into his left.

When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and it is all one.

Try making a poem as if it were a table, clear and solid, standing there outside you.

For Zen, man is the goal; man is the end unto himself. God is not something above humanity, God is something hidden within humanity. Man is carrying God in himself as a potentiality.

Statistics say that I'm supposed to be in jail. And I'm not supposed to be alive.