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

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.

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.

I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.

Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different.

I wanted him [my father] to cherish and approve of me, not as he had when I was a child, but as the woman I was, who had her own mind and had made her own choices.

99 percent of success is built on failure.

We are the architects of our own happiness

I'm interested in everthing but passionate about nothing.

Embodying your being is you earning your own being, earning your being in your body.

No big shocker that following Jesus is costly. The best things in life always are.

There are worse things than a lie and there are better things than the truth!

If you believe that saying no will get you shot, well, what a fine way to go.

I see myself as the same person as I was, as I am now.