Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire emotion and knowledge.

Science is nothing but perception.

Reality is created by the mind. We can change our reality by changing our mind.

If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

Every step you take is pre-planned by your mind

Some situations feel worst in our life, but they are the best lessons for life.

If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them.

Are stress and worry evidence of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God?

I've always wanted to go to Timbuktu. First of all I think it has the best name of anywhere in the world.

Now and then when I get an idea for a picture, I think, how ordinary. Why paint that old rock? Why not go for a walk instead? But then I realise that to someone else it may not seem so ordinary.

I think Patsy Cline made country music classy. She just opens her mouth, and it's just heavenly.

It always impresses me when a person of small stature has command.

When the rider demands the piaffe, he has to halt the horse a few strides before the latter wants to stop of his own accord.

Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?