The mountains too, at a distance, appear airy masses and smooth, but seen near at hand they are rough.

Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue.

As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess.

There is a written and an unwritten law. The one by which we regulate our constitutions in our cities is the written law; that which arises from customs is the unwritten law.

Bury me on my face," said Diogenes; and when he was asked why, he replied, "Because in a little while everything will be turned upside down.

Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the same from every place.

Diogenes, when asked from what country he came, replied, "I am a citizen of the world."

He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.

Sacrifice to the Graces.

Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust.

Aristippus being asked what were the most necessary things for well-born boys to learn, said, "Those things which they will put in practice when they become men.

Everyone leaves behind a legacy of some kind, but those who approach living with a ‘No Excuses’ mindset leave a legacy of value.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

It's up to each person's parents whether they think it's too frightening or too violent, how much their kids can handle, what they want to teach them, what they want to show them.

Be kind to all beings, this is more meritorious than bathing at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage and donating money.

Look at a crucifix. This is how I got my bride to heaven. How else do you think you will get yours there?

I don't throw people under the bus. When I stick by a guy - I may not agree with him all the time, but I sure don't throw him under the bus.

I had all the fame anyone could want, and I ran away from it.

The secret of life is in art.

Survival is your strength not your shame.

Hurry up and write your number down before I don't want it no more.