Myth does not set out to give lessons in natural science any more than in morals or sociology.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.

Alice Koller

I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum.

Robert De Niro

Collect impressions. Don

Claude Debussy, in a letter to h

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Old foxes want no tutors.

Thomas Fuller

In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.

Rutherford B. Hayes, In Rutherfo

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

George Santayana

Ability without honor is useless.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up.

Jenny Eclair

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

Ani DiFranco

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

Arnold Schwarzenegger