Whenever the deity contrives misfortunes for a man, he first harms their understanding.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

Always desire to learn something useful

Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.

There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

...if anyone who speaks up to criticise something obviously evil is punished merely for speaking, civilisation will be in a bad way.

War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading.

Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing demagogues and ending tyrants.

A sunny, happy day is beautiful, but when it's moody, and storm is coming, there's an energy in the air.

Life was like a batch of biscuits without the baking powder: flat, flat, flat.

To have any kind of a future you've got to give up hope of ever changing your past.

I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!

I am painfully situated, Utterson; my position is a very strange - a very strange one. It is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking.

I needed to go . . . the pull of Everest was stronger for me than any force on earth.

The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling.