You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

In war, truth is the first casualty.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

The air is Zeus, Zeus earth, and Zeus the heaven, Zeus all that is, and what transcends them all.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

The truth is what you live through while you're looking for the truth.

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

I am praying that the issues from the last 12 generations go into the ground with me so I have NEW issue is to pass on to my son.

There is nothing spiritual about a marriage that uses guilt, blame, shame or religious manipulations to keep a relationship together.

For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf.

Movies are collective, cooperative endeavours, which I like a lot. But writing is all up to you, it's what's so scary; it's just you and that page. But I really like it a lot.

When you come to Parliament on your first day, you wonder how you ever got here. After that, you wonder how the other 263 members got here.

As hope and fear alternate chase Our course through life's uncertain race.

Today the greatest single deterrent to knowledge of Jesus is His familiarity. Because we think we know Him, we pass Him by.