Those whom the gods chose as their property must not consort with mortals.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

History is the zoology of the human race.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

Stand up for what you believe in, even if you stand alone.

I like to make jokes I consider myself a funny person. I just think making jokes about people who are in a situation beyond their control is not funny to them or their families.

The work of art is a scream of freedom.

Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.

Confidence is a big part of any sport, but as far as sports psycholgy, I met with one last year before the season, and hell I just felt stupid after that, so I try to stay out of there.

I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is.

It's going to go away because we all need silence. We all need time to reflect and think. I am not at all pessimistic about this.

hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon.

Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature!

Dancing and singing were always like games to me. I sang constantly.