To keep up as good a cuisine as your father.

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.

...she thought of him as a person who did not have a normal spine, but had instead, a firm reed of goodness.

Death is not the enemy living in constant fear of it is.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

You change your mind-set, and as long as you've got a good mind-set, you'll know everything is good.

The way we measure awareness is by how long you can stop thought. If you can't stop thought at all, then you are not powerful. You might be quite evolved, but you have no access to that evolution.

I think that everything's hard now anyways, so you might as well do stuff that you love and believe in.

Love is the only thing - I don't want to say that "makes it bearable" - but I feel like without the possibility of love, this place would just devour us.

I was in theater when I was in elementary, middle school and high school. I didn't know it would be an actual profession for me. I didn't think of it as a reality.

Comics are stories; they're like novels or anything else. So the first thing you have to do is become a good storyteller.

Meryl Streep does not make mistakes. Sometimes the world just can't keep up.