To have slaved so many years for nothing!

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.

Today is a new canvas, paint it with all your favorite colors.

I grew up in Brentwood, but I live now in Los Feliz. I grew up on the beach, now I live under the Hollywood sign.

I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book.

There are all sorts of things embodied in the Lego brick - geometry and mathematics and truth and proportion and shape and colour... It is a faintly spiritual activity that everybody connects with.

It's the journey, not the destination. I truly believe that.

Never give up hope, spring will come.

Away with funeral music-set The pipe to powerful lips- The cup of life's for him that drinks And not for him that sips.

The more we learn about flowers, the less silent they are.

I know that I could make this world peaceful and calm, if I only could get my hands on a hydrogen bomb.

As I've gone along, I felt like I was discovering an aspect of my voice that I didn't know was there: an ability to interpret a song in a way that makes it more accessible.