We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.

Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things.

Do you remember that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, "How well he spoke" but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, they said, "Let us march.

The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.

It is impossible for men engaged in low and groveling pursuits to have noble and generous sentiments. A man's thought must always follow his employment.

I just want to be someone, to mean something to anyone…

Novel writing is World Building & Word Weaving (Neil Postman's terms).

So there are many things outside of your control. Why not create positive control over the other things and add greater value to those?

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.

Always feeling rushed is no way for a prosperity-minded individual to live. The objective of life is not to get through it as fast as possible.

I don't talk about consciousness. I talk about interiority.

I loved him, but love isn't enough. All the fairy tales, the romance novels, the soap operas; they're all lies. Love does not conquer all.

They that are fated to be fools, have one consolation, that they are fated also to be ignorant of it.

I think it's because most of us talk one way and live another. There are a few people who truly, truly walk the talk.