Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.

Noblest minds are easiest bent.

Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this.

I'm a Spalding Gray in a Rick Dees world.

Kids are great. You can teach them to hate what you hate and, with the Internet and all, they practically raise themselves.

Life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor

A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.