Speech is a powerful master and achieves the most divine feats with the smallest and least evident body. It can stop fear, relieve pain, create joy, and increase pity

Nothing exists; even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it can't be communicated to others.

The man who deceives shows more justice than he who does not

Being is unrecognizable unless it manages to seem, and seeming is feeble unless it manages to be.

Men who neglect philosophy while busying themselves with ordinary affairs are like the Suitors [in the Odyssey] who desired Penelope but went to bed with her maids.

I answer, Socrates, that rhetoric is the art of persuasion in courts of law and other assemblies, as I was just now saying, and about the just and unjust.

If it were necessary either to do wrong or to suffer it, I should choose to suffer rather than do it.

Chance gives a smile to the one who is ready to take it

You have to have courage to be obedient to God.

In the absence of evidence, the scientist says, 'I don't know,' but the religionist says, 'I believe.'

Some Jungian or Freudian would tell me I'm just trying to go back to the womb... at gunpoint, if necessary.

If it is a small rate raises, [there will be] no impact.

Not only is Rip Hamilton an outstanding basketball player, he is also known for giving back to his community.

When you start something creative for the first time, you are completely free, no real influences other than your own vision.

When we heard we were topping the bill over James Brown we couldn't believe it. We tried for two days to get it changed round - I mean you can't follow an act like that.

Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies.