“Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.”

Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.

It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one’s enemies with courage.

The marketplace is democratic.

Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.

Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet.

Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all.

As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.

Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all.

We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.

Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.

For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.

Better die standing than live kneeling.

Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.

We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.

At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I’m Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.

I love women. I actually prefer girls, as a parent, because they disappoint at a different age. They go through that, “Dad’s an idiot,” which lasted a little longer than I’d like.

Can’t Stop Dancing’ is this other side of me that I was ready to introduce to my fans, which is like, after you hang out with me, you start to see that I can be chilled and relaxed, and I’m a little bit more mature for my age.

It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?

In human years I am 29. In actress years I’m the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That’s how it works here in Hollywood.

What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.