"So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence."

"The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken."

"The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside."

"We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth."

"If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift."

"Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured."

"The family is the country of the heart."

"I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last."

"When you helped somebody, right away you were responsible for that person. And things always followed for which you were never prepared."

"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

"The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't."

"If the automobile had followed the same development cyclee as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.'"