“Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.”

Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

Water is the best of all things.

May God grant me love for that which has splendor; but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.

Many a time the thing left silent makes for happiness.

Even now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God.

Learn what you are and be such.

With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us.

War is sweet for those who haven’t experienced it.

A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.

Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.

A good deed hidden in silence dies.

Creatures of a day, what is any one? What is he not? Man is but a dream of a shadow. Yet when there comes as a gift of heaven a gleam of sunshine, there rest upon men a radiant light and, aye, a gentle life.

To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.

He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.

For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.

I want to tell authentic, real stories with real characters.

Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.

Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow.

Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.

When we acknowledge a child’s feelings, we do him a great service.

I think L.A. is beautiful.

I’m a big fan of Tom Stoppard’s work, and have been since I was in school where I studied him.

Have we not all, amid life’s petty strife