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

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.

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.

Every idea travels to somewhere but some ideas travel to everywhere, the great ideas!

Trust me: our critical infrastructure is vulnerable to cyber-attack, to potential terrorist attack, and we are not taking this threat seriously enough.

I'm drawn to people who look different. I'm not exploiting. I'm not making fun of them. I'm drawn to them.

... the great artists ... do not want security, egoistic or materialistic.

I build a wall around myself. I'm hard to get to know. Any trait you have, it gets worse as you go along.

The mind never fully accepts any convictions that it does not owe to its own efforts.

One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison.

I like showing the gritty truthful dark side of humanity.

I took tap classes growing up.

Ye marshes, how candid and simple and nothing-withholding and free, Ye publish yourselves to the sky and offer yourselves to the sea.