A prating barber asked Archelaus how he would be trimmed. He answered, "In silence."

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "action," and which was the third, he still answered "Action.

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.

Barba non facit philosophum

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

Everything’s different from us. That’s why everything exists.

Mindfulness helps us to live in harmony with our thoughts, words and actions.

There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.

A number of people still think of the United States as being overwhelmingly English, Protestant, and white. This erroneous idea influences their whole outlook.

Women have been sexual slaves for most of recorded history.

Clouds are fascinating to paint because they are the only element in a landscape that possesses free movement.

Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism, it is an excrescence.

The attorney general should be enforcing the law, not policy.

Because of Jesus the sin we cannot forget God does not remember.

Ambition is the mind's immodesty.