sooner or later, if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.

Love cannot live where there is no trust.

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful ... was a mark of the Greek spirit.

The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.

..,No love cannot leave where there is no trust..,~cupid and psyche..,"Greek mythology of Edith Hamilton

Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.

A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.

It is not hard work that is dreary; it is superficial work.

Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

It is in our forgiveness of other people’s sins against us that we reveal the fact that we have been truly forgiven by God.

I think [Ann Coulter] understands that, she's Pavlov's dog. She gets the corn kernel if she hits that drum once in a while.

One of the best gifts we can give ourselves is time alone with God.

Don't a fellow feel good after he gets out of a store where he nearly bought something.

When it became clear that Lennon was not going to speak with me, it really became a how-I-didn't-get-the-story story. It was a caper.

Weirdly enough, I don't like to pretend. I try to use things in me, and translate them into the situation and the characters, so it always needs to run through my own veins.

The deep sea is the largest museum on earth, it contains more history than all the museums on land combined, and yet we're only now penetrating it.

Trust and reputation are not discretionary. They are as necessary in business as the people in whom they reside.