Time, waxing old, doth all things purify.

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

In war, truth is the first casualty.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

The air is Zeus, Zeus earth, and Zeus the heaven, Zeus all that is, and what transcends them all.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

You can either have individual liberty, or dependence on the government. One is designed to undo the other.

I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.

My goal isn't so much genre, or fact-based or not fact-based. I just want to work on projects that I think could be great.

If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.

Wounds heal and become scars, but scars grow with us.

Fear is something I instill in other people, mostly young girls.

A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your dreams.

I had no voice to talk with because she was my whole language.

You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.

It would be an unspeakable advantage, both to the public and private, if men would consider that great truth, that no man is wise or safe but he that is honest.