To Plato the desire for excessive and special foods ... is a hindrance to the soul's attainment of intelligence.

Plato feels that ethical abstinences and austerities are essential preconditions for the cleansing and opening of the eye of the soul.

Art's primary social function is to define the communal self, which includes redefining it when the community is changing.

Many modern scholars have found the asceticism expressed in Plato unacceptable; it does not sound like the advice of a reasonable man in the Cartesian tradition.

Plato rarely if ever states anything about himself clearly.

This general eclipse of ambition and determination and fortitude, all of the very qualities on which I have prided myself, is ridiculous, and, I must admit, somewhat obscene.

Faith is not blind if you consistently take the right actions to reveal it.

Love spills out of these people. That's what I want. Settling for anything less is a lie.

I realized, there are people out there who can beat me, want to beat me. And unless I continue to innovate and evolve, I am going to learn a painful lesson from someone who has.

Psychic perception is a much more efficient and accurate method of seeing and knowing reality.

A sweetly scented angel fell, she laid her head upon my disbelief, and battled with me with her ever smile.

My greatest solace is my study. If I am deprived of my study, I can become lost, unhappy and unhinged.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

I totally love to act. I don't care if it's a musical, a comedy. I just like to work and interact with other people.

It is safer to be silent than to reveal one's secret to any one, and telling him not to mention it.