Voltaire

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.

Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of this language in the poem.