Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "action," and which was the third, he still answered "Action.

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.

Barba non facit philosophum

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

You only live twice:Once when you are bornAnd once when you look death in the face

I think the first time you try anything in a public way, you feel really exposed.

In the state of emptiness, you are the action not the performer of the action. Allow an activity or event to take precedence over your own point of view.

When you have a belief, then you make your views known.

A lot of the job that one has to do as a writer is to protect the thing that doesn't match the world.

Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have the slightest idea what's really going on.

I really like when people do 'stream of consciousness' tweeting, or when people's tweets come across as sort of manic and mostly unedited.

there is nothing sorer to the spirit than falling below what one's lover thinks of one.

I'm a fan of great storytelling.

Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it.