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

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends, He hurts me most who lavishly commends.

Sweet April-time--O cruel April-time! Year after year returning, with a brow Of promise, and red lips with longing paled, And backward-hidden hands that clutch the joys Of vanished springs, like flowers.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudice, and motivated by pride and vanity.

So here hath been dawning Another blue day; Think, wilt thou let it Slip useless away? Out of eternity This new day is born, Into eternity At night will return.

Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can fear reproof who merit praise.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

He is only fanastical that is not in fashion.

For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is.

Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.

Into the woods, my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent, Into the woods my Master came, Forspent with love and shame. But the olives they were not blind to Him, The little gray leaves were kind to Him: The thorn-tree had a mind to Him, When into the woods He came.

Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber!

The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else . . . was to be indifferent to that difference.

Every time a football player goes to ply his trade he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play. Some guys play with their heads. That's O.K. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second. -Vince Lombardi.

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.

So we're all right, an' I, for one, Don't think our cause'll lose in vally By rammin' Scriptur' in our gun, An' gittin' Natur' for an ally.

A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.

Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.