Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.

There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

If you want to be wrong then follow the masses.

I am a Citizen of the World, and my Nationality is Goodwill.

Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy's pocket on an airplane and made a run for it.

Why travel? To be changed, and to be changed again and again.

It's ironic when black non-Muslims say Islam is not a religion that uplifts black people when two of the most celebrated black heroes in recent history were both Muslim

One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.

My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.

o, I don't want to say it's mine. Certainly, I'm leading, there's no question about that. But we have got a long way to go.

I fell in love with melancholy

Only when you are absolutely devoted to what you do, can you produce something significant in the world.

Not just personal unhappiness but all strife in life, including war, is the result of an over-emphasis on temporary things; money, power and material possession

You cant just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.