To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away

Time, which sees all things, has found you out.

Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.

The truth is what I cherish and that's my strength

Alas, how terrible is wisdomwhen it brings no profit to the man that's wise!This I knew well, but had forgotten it, else I would not have come here.

The tyrant is a child of PrideWho drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlongHe plummets to the dust of hope.

A sight to touch e’en hatred’s self with pity.

Closer, it’s all right. Touch the man of grief.Do. Don’t be afraid. My troubles are mine and I am the only man alive who can sustain them.

The only power desirable is the grace to pray.

It couldn’t last. Everyone was just killing time. But if all they did was kill time, time would end up killing them.

Politics, like insurance, security, pharmaceutical and religious institutions all work the same. They sell the idea of a threat along with the antidote. Marketing 101.

It became clear to me that simply caring is not enough. To drive real progress, you have to change both hearts and laws. You need both understanding and action.

The Venus Project is not about new cities or new architecture. It's about a way of thinking

Think of it as the Doorway of No Return. The feeling must be that your lead character, once she passes through, cannot go home again until the major problem of the plot is solved.

I'm not sure we need half a billion dollars for women's health issues.

Did you ever meet a mother that complained that her child phoned her too often? Me neither.

It's my party and I'll die if I want to!

The hope for a messiah puts too much on that one person. And you think that absolves you of personal responsibility and you don't have to act because that person will do it for you.