Affliction is a mother, Whose painful throes yield many sons, Each fairer than the other.
The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes.
One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie
Your virtue raises your glory above your crime.
As for our gods, we have a few too many to be true.
For souls nobly born, valor doesn't await the passing of years
I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.
People don't ask Andre Agassi, 'You know you're the No. 1 tennis player in the world. . . have you thought about polo?'
People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.
It makes me upset, if not angry, when people assume that there can be no morality without a religious framework. If there's a moral framework without all that religious stuff, it's more valuable.
The roughest thing was learning the realities of the world at such a young age. I was 10 or 11, going to church, hearing the adults standing on the podium talking about world affairs, about history, about war, and how America was founded.