Furthermore, I think Carthage must be destroyed.

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.

I prefer to do right and get no thanks than to do wrong and receive no punishment.

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.

The hero saves us. Praise the hero! Now, who will save us from the hero?

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.

If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Any perceived 'rejection' is simply a 're-direction'.

Be as intellectual as you like about it, but India is brilliantly mad. And if you want to love it, you have to hate it first.

I think it was 37 years that I did music.

In order to grow, you must learn to let go and strive toward something greater.

If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.

If you think a caregiver has an active substance abuse problem, that person should never be entrusted with your child.

Whatever one cultivates, is what one becomes.

Me and my dad used to play tag, he'd drive!

I was a Ukrainian folk dancer in my teens, and I toured the country in 1991, shortly before the break-up of the Soviet Union.

I'm perpetually curious as to what happened to all those supposed prodigies who were singled out while I and my coterie of far more interesting malcontents passed on.