Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato.

All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.

To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi)." Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.

It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public.

Few men think, yet all will have opinions.

The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.

That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.

A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.

The first sure symptom of a mind in health Is rest of heart and pleasure felt at home.

When it comes to achieving, what matters is you to know, what you really want and make up your mind to believe in your own efforts that you will achieve and you will make it with ease.

Street League Skateboarding is the premier professional skateboarding league in the world, with the biggest prize money in history.

Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.

Bad ideas flourish because they are in the interest of powerful groups.

I'm not claiming anything like sainthood - merely a native perception.

Butterflies...flowers that fly and all but sing.

Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.

Scores only matter if they’re very good, no one pays much attention to the bad or mediocre ones.

I take thee at thy word: Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized; Henceforth I never will be Romeo.