Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do.

Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.

The idle mind knows not what it wants.

The wise man is wise in vain who cannot be wise to his own advantage. [Lat., Nequicquam sapere sapientem, qui ipse sibi prodesse non quiret.]

He who civilly shows the way to one who has missed it, is as one who has lighted another's lamp from his own lamp; it none the less gives light to himself when it burns for the other.

He hath freedom whoso beareth a clean and constant heart within.

He who has two languages has two souls.

Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead.

How can life be worth living, if devoid Of the calm trust reposed by friend in friend? What sweeter joy than in the kindred soul, Whose converse differs not from self-communion?

A true friend is distinguished in the crisis of hazard and necessity; when the gallantry of his aid may show the worth of his soul and the loyalty of his heart.

If we take memetics seriously then the 'me' that could do the choosing is itself a memetic construct: a fluid and ever-changing group of memes installed in a complicated meme machine.

I was eleven, the idea of two identical digits in my age still new and spectacular and heartbreaking. The girls must have felt this. They must have known. Where had ten, nine, eight, and seven gone?

The answers you get from literature depend upon the questions you pose.

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

Embrace suffering, and you transform your relationship with what causes you to suffer, as well as your relationship with suffering itself.

Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.

Don't believe a thing unless you hear from me directly because there's a lot of bad info going on out there.

Commending the victims to almighty God's mercy, I implore his strength upon all involved in rescue efforts and in caring for the survivors.

Power, true power, comes from within. Not without. (Nick)

I feel like everybody has a purpose. For me, I just want to be an example of what I talk about like speaking and what I preach about when I speak to schools and companies during the off-season.