Check disease in its approach.

You follow words of the toga (language of the cultivated class). [Lat., Verba togae sequeris.]

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

He who conquers, endures.

Bad advice is often most fatal to the adviser.

Your knowing a thing is nothing, unless another knows you know it.

The belly is the giver of genius.

Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations.

The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit.

Nothing can be born of nothing; nothing can be resolved into nothing.

Oh, the cares of men! how much emptiness there is in human concerns!

Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.

I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy...that makes you unkind.

A bowl rotates faster at the top than at the bottom.

There is energy and power in a crisis.

How many fine thoughts has every man had! How few fine thoughts are expressed!

The single most important lesson I learned is that black people are the cause of black people's demise.

Be angry, it's okay. To be angry, that is very human. And to learn how to smile at your anger and make peace with your anger is very nice.

We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it.

Tightly held by rocks Through winter, the ice today Begins to come undone: A way-seeker also is the water, Melting, murmuring from the moss.

But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.