The only prayer which a well-meaning man can pray is, O ye gods, give me whatever is fitting unto me!

There is no death of anyone, save in appearance, just as there is no birth of any, save only in seeming.

In India, I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it, inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything, but possessed by nothing.

Virtue comes by nature, learning, and practice, and thanks to virtue, all of the aforesaid may deserve approval.

I feel friendship towards philosophers, but towards sophists, teachers of literature, or any other such kind of godforsaken people, I neither feel friendship now, nor may I ever do so in the future.

Multicolored stones and paintings, walkways, and theaters are useless in a city unless it also contains wisdom and law. Such things are the subject of wisdom and law, not equivalent to them.

The gods do not need sacrifices, so what might one do to please them? Acquire wisdom, it seems to me, and do all the good in one's power to those humans who deserve it.

Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.

Either loyalty and love are same things, or loyalty is certainly a better kind of love than love.

Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.

Man seeks, in his manhood, not orders, not laws and peremptory dogmas, but counsel from one who is earnest in goodness and faithful in friendship, making man free.

If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.

I cried today. I wasn't sad. You showed me beauty that I had only seen in books and dreams. I now see it in you.

I have got better things to do in working with my athletes who I feel are going to be involved in 2012.

Patience and love can do anything.

I have a ships bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.