It is true, indeed, that the account Plato gives in 'Timaeus' is different from what he says in his so-called 'unwritten teachings.'

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.

Just because there is change around us does not mean there has to be change within us.

You have two options. work on someone else's ideas and make some money or generate ideas make them work and become a millionaire.

We must learn to accept life and to accept ourselves ... with a shrug and a smile ... because it's all we've got.

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.

Sadness diminishes a man's powers

I'll be so presidential that you people will be screaming loosen up president. Loosen up.

I'm not saying we have power over everything in our lives - if that were true, my hair would look so, so different - but I am saying that there's no circumstance in which we are completely powerless.

It is never too late to regain our credibility around the world.

Being the best right now doesn't do anything for my feathers.

All those horrible, traumatic years I spent as a kid became what I draw from creatively today.