Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering under Kim Jong-Il.

Strive for perfection in everything. Take the best that exists and make it better. If it doesn't exist, create it. Accept nothing nearly right or good enough

Whatever is rightly done, however humble, is noble. (Quidvis recte factum quamvis humile praeclarum.)

Strive for perfection in everything you do.

The quality will remain when the price is forgotten.

Take the best that exists and make it better.

You put the Devil on the other side, and I will come to fight.

Accept nothing nearly right or good enough

Unless you can find some sort of LOYALTY, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living.

Talented people without discipline don't go anywhere.

Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.

How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.

Trust comes through honesty.

My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.

Are modern children going to revolt against being modern, and if so, what form will reaction of modern parents take?

In the arts there are many right answers.

I grew up in a dictatorship, where you couldn't talk about difficult situations - there was this culture of silence. We would run into a problem and have no one to talk to.

Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost.

I came to realize this weird projection: you are much more passionate about hating something outside of you when you know that something is also in you.

True heroics must be carefully planned - and strenuously avoided.