... the good are not willing to rule either for the sake of money or of honor.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire emotion and knowledge.

Science is nothing but perception.

Reality is created by the mind. We can change our reality by changing our mind.

If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

It is a great thing to be young and to live without pain. And yet it is a blessing few of us count until we lose it.

Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate...

Boys always make things more complicated.

Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural.

If you spend your life walking through somebody else's museum, you never find out whether you're Rembrandt or not.

In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks.

Coming into Pacifica I knew that I wanted whatever I was going to learn there, I knew I wanted to integrate that into my art no matter what.

The moral is that it is probably better not to sin at all, but if some kind of sin you must be pursuing, Well, remember to do it by doing rather than by not doing.

The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.