Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

Lose an hour in the morning and you'll be looking for it all day.

There is clearly much left to be done and whatever else we are going to do we had better get on with it.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Suffering of sentient beings is like decay; it fertilizes the growth of their souls.

I'm the guy who puts projects together.

I'm most comfortable with the Southern dialects, really. It's easy, for example, for me to do Irish because we've got Irish heritage where I come from.

My parents could not be more Italian.

The imprimatur of truthfulness does not guarantee truthfulness. People should know better. But they don't.

Democracy can survive anything except Democrats

My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation. Out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem like lions