Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.

They could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in order to enjoy a hypothetical well-being in another.

He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul.

Whatever happens to you, once you have hope you will survive.

The shift in thought frequency of a single individual has enough energy to light up the world’s lighthouses—we hold that much power within us.

With the practice of meditation you can move into other states of mind, sort of ungluing the glue that binds you to a particular perceptual mode, a way of seeing life which is an illusory one.

Nothing annoys a man as to hear a woman promising to love him "forever" when he merely wanted her to love him for a few weeks.

Oddly enough, I'm not religious but I'm also very fond of St Peter's in Rome. When I'm there, I always know there's a good meal not far away.

Michael Weiss and Todd Eldredge and I all competed against each other. Even though Im older than them, we did cross over a little bit.

It is not love that matters, Mistress Boy, it is what you choose to do with it. What’d you choose to do with yours?

The most prepared are the most dedicated.

We’re at a point in history that whether the Internet is going to evolve in a way that’s compatible with democracy and human rights is really kind of up in the air.

I hurt myself today to see if I could feel. I hurt myself, you said to try to make him feel. So I hurt myself again to see if he'd see me. I hurt myself again and no, he never could see me.