To make a decision, all you need is authority. To make a good decision, you also need knowledge, experience, and insight.

Developing this ability instills a sixth sense for navigating human relationships with dignity, grace, and discretion, thus making an intentional and thoughtful first impression.

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue not a companion in vice.

It was time for me to spend more time with my wife. I'm not saying I do spend more time with my wife, because she would throw me out of the house, but we have breakfast together. I never did.

Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated?

I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?

I was always interested in myths growing up. So, first I got into some Roman myths, then I was interested in Norse, then Celtic, then I started spreading to all the other mythologies.

Obviously a child can never conceive solitude if his parents aren't living it somewhere themselves. I don't mean that to be alone you have to get down on your knees for an hour in a yoga posture.

How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease!

The immortality of the soul is assented to rather than believed, believed rather than lived.