It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Adventure is worthwhile.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

If you keep fighting with yourself, you will always win.

Life is too short not to eat raw and it's even shorter if you don't.

This is not just "our" world.

I like drama. I love being in a drama where I get to be the funny guy. That's what I really love the most.

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Things are to be used and God is to be loved. We get into trouble when we begin to use God and love things.

Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.

The Painter's Keys is a timeless, universal guide to lifemanship masquerading as a painting blog.

Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.