I call that man idle who might be better employed.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.

There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

If you want to be wrong then follow the masses.

I am a Citizen of the World, and my Nationality is Goodwill.

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Moss is selected to be the emblem of maternal love, because, like that love, it glads the heart when the winter of adversity overtakes us, and when summer friends have deserted us.

The only prison we need to escape from is the prison of our own minds.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun.

He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir.

Critiquing relieves you of the responsibility of doing integrative thinking.

Decriminalization would take the profit out of drugs and greatly reduce, if not eliminate, the drug-related violence that is currently plaguing our streets.

Real peace is more than the absence of war; it is an absence of the causes of war.

I justified it in so many ways. I had a very, very long and difficult struggle with my sexuality.