Know yourself and fit yourself to new fashions. For there is a new ruler among the gods.

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

In war, truth is the first casualty.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

The air is Zeus, Zeus earth, and Zeus the heaven, Zeus all that is, and what transcends them all.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

Have the courage to follow your heart.

My desk is covered with talismans: pieces of rose quartz, wishing stones from a favorite beach.

You have to be smart enough not to dismiss where you came from. It may not be all we are, but it makes up for a great deal.

I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer.

Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

It's evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.

We must enter and take possession of the consciences of the children, of the consciences of the young, because they do belong, and should belong to the revolution.

Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption.

Your tomorrow has no right to complain about your today, as long as your today gives you a bliss, unknown and incomprehensible to both your yesterday, and tomorrow!

There is no good reason. Don't waste your life waiting for good reasons...You'll wait and wait.