Our senses through ignorance of Reality, falsely tell us that what appears to be, is. FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "action," and which was the third, he still answered "Action.

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.

Barba non facit philosophum

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

Entrepreneurship is all about making life easier for humanity, while money becomes a bye-product.

Face it, you have to be sort of an egomaniac to write something down and think that anyone is going to want to read it.

Enjoy thankfully any happy hour heaven may send you, nor think that your delights will keep till another year.

The world was ending then, it's ending still, and I'm happy to belong to it again.

I don't really care what people think about my hair. It's my hair, so why should they care? Ooh, that rhymed.

Truth doesn't run on time like a commuter train.

I wasn’t sure which of us was being more selfish—her, for wanting something that no one could promise, or me, for not promising her something that was too painfully impossible to want.

Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a far larger place in our actual life than the country in which we happen to be.

Like Adam, formed from clay, children are formed from the biological material of which they are made or by the hands of their parents.