Art's primary social function is to define the communal self, which includes redefining it when the community is changing.

Plato feels that ethical abstinences and austerities are essential preconditions for the cleansing and opening of the eye of the soul.

Many modern scholars have found the asceticism expressed in Plato unacceptable; it does not sound like the advice of a reasonable man in the Cartesian tradition.

To Plato the desire for excessive and special foods ... is a hindrance to the soul's attainment of intelligence.

Plato rarely if ever states anything about himself clearly.

There ain't no devil, only God when he's drunk.

I had a dream that my boyfriend went back to his ex…I woke up and giggled because you don’t pick up a rock after finding a diamond.

We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom.

I was already headed for Hell, I might as well enjoy the ride.

I'm really high... I mean the altitude of course.

I can't do comedy that is cutting and vicious. If I knew I'd said something that was going to make someone feel bad, well, that supersedes everything.

A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant.

There are days when I don't want to go to the gym or find myself not super motivated upon arriving. I would visualize myself playing at the Olympics.

The quality of your attention determines the quality of other people's thinking.

Kristina has been to the Maldives but never to Venice, and I have been to Venice but never to the Maldives.