Diogenes said once to a person who was showing him a dial, "It is a very useful thing to save a man from being too late for supper.

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.

The more you try to crush your nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop.

How furious she must be, now that she's been taken at her word.

Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.

I think people will be surprised at how fast they go next year. I do think world records will get broken next year.

I'm very politically active, but that has nothing to do with my charity.

For me, things were either very sullied or very pure, very controlled or very under-controlled.

My mother-in-law's so fat that when she passes her handbag from hand to hand she throws it.

Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.

There is no greater love than this. There is no greater gift that can ever be given. To be willing to die, so another might live -- there is no greater lover than this.