Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

Doubts mean losing half of one's case beforehand.

- Czech Proverb

She might be pointing to a doorway, or a person, or the sky. But such things were so common to my eyes, so undistinguished, that they would register as "nothing"I walked in a gray world of nothing.

A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

- Romanian Proverb

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

The love and support provided by both parents give children the foundation they need to be successful and happy in life

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

If disaster, so be it, they said to themselves. There was nothing to be done except what could be done. The rest -- like the salt water around them, which swallowed the snow without effort, remaining what it was implacably -- was out of their hands, beyond.

One can stand still in a flowing stream,but not in a world of men.

- Japanese Proverb