“For this is wisdom: to live, to take what fate, or the Gods, may give.”

Less than the weed that grows beside thy door.

The gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.

I shall go the way of the open sea

To the lands I knew before you came, And the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me The memory of your name.

Red lips like a living, laughing rose.

Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel

Men should be judged not by their tint of skin

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

I don’t take pictures when I’m with my kids, for the sake of my kids. It’s important when you’re as busy as I am that you give your kids your time when you’re with them, and nothing compromises that. I’ve been lucky enough to have fans that understand that.

We cannot create observers by saying ‘observe’, but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.

I don’t want to do business with those who don’t make a profit, because they can’t give the best service.

Comedy is my therapy. That’s how I deal with my problems, my personal battles. I talk about it. I give it to my fans. When they laugh at it, it’s a release, for lack of a better word.

I’m not going to stop having problems.

If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.

It’s been our goal as a program to always give our players the best opportunity to be successful, whether it’s personally, academically, or athletically.