We do not imitate, but are a model to others.

We do not imitate, but are a model to others.

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

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

Time is the wisest counsellor of all.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.

The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.

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

For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, time.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

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

Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

All who have taken it upon themselves to rule over others have incurred hatred and unpopularity for a time; but if one has a great aim to pursue, this burden of envy must be accepted, and it is wise to accept it.

It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.

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

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.

Time is the wisest counselor of all.

We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it: the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

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

Famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

In an environment where you've got to push innovations out the door fast and keep the cost of innovation low, the probability that you'll be successful is actually much higher.

The ancient feud between cat and dog is not forgotten in the north, for the Lynx is the deadly foe of the Fox and habitually kills it when there is soft snow and scarcity of easier prey.

I think we've moved to thinking of parenting and pregnancy as something in which you should lose yourself.

I don't think one should be comfortable standing on a stage with people applauding and laughing at every stupid thing you say.

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

I don't want to, in any way, characterize a race or a people or get accused of racial profiling, but the Irish, as lyrical and romantic as they can be in their poetry, they can be every bit as repressed in their personal relations.

The wild Indian power of escaping observation, even where there is little or no cover to hide in, was probably slowly acquired in hard hunting and fighting lessons while trying to approach game, take enemies by surprise, or get safely away when compelled to retreat.

I care so much less, now, about going up the ladder; if I cared about the ladder I would be doing it all very wrong.

The lives of prisoners of war after they are returned is almost never discussed, never explored.

I was lucky enough to be able to do comedies, dramas, completely different parts. At the beginning, when you start you have a fantasy that you could be somebody else. Which is absurd. That's part of being an actor. It's your voice, it's the way you move, it's your body, even if you transform it, you play with it.

A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.

I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a congress.

I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.

We need you. The best version of you. You're here for a reason, and we can't wait to see what that is. Stay in your lane. Run that race.

There's something majestic about a 30-pound Chinook salmon roasted and served whole - people get excited when you present it with the head and tail on. It has beautifully browned skin and extraordinary bright red flesh when you cut into it.

If a man will not work, he shall not eat.

My plan was to release a tape, move to Arkansas, live on a farm, and make music like Bon Iver.

I wish I had the nerve not to tip.

Whats the difference between Hollywood characters and my characters Mine are real.

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

The NFL, sadly, has a fatal environmental problem: It kills its workers.

Ive always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way and youve got to have that drive and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to whatever it is that you want to accomplish.

Because of their very nature, science and logical thinking can never decide what is possible or impossible. Their only function is to explain what has been ascertained by experience and observation.

But seventeen is an inconvenient time to fall in love.