Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue.

As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess.

There is a written and an unwritten law. The one by which we regulate our constitutions in our cities is the written law; that which arises from customs is the unwritten law.

Bury me on my face," said Diogenes; and when he was asked why, he replied, "Because in a little while everything will be turned upside down.

Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the same from every place.

Diogenes, when asked from what country he came, replied, "I am a citizen of the world."

He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.

Sacrifice to the Graces.

Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust.

Aristippus being asked what were the most necessary things for well-born boys to learn, said, "Those things which they will put in practice when they become men.

Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods.

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be understood only as an abstraction.

...the uncomfortable appearance of a girl who was rapidly shooting up into a woman and didn't like it.

Above all try something.

I'm so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.

It is for us and our time...to say the right makes might.

No one likes change... but babies in diapers.

Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.

I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Now I've wrestled alotta countries!