I believe that the gods themselves are frightened of the world which they have fashioned.

Only those with great ambitions know what great fears drive them forward.

One can forgive Shakespeare anything, except one's own bad lines.

He had the satisfied countenance of a man who has never succeeded in boring himself.

'If we don't play god, who will?'

Qui peut tout doit tout craindre.

I remember when I was a kid at school having to learn a poem of sorts about a fellow named Pig-something--a sculptor he would have been, no doubt--who made a s…