Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy.

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.

The world of books is the wealth of being.

To me, not every black filmmaker who is making black films is trying to make black cinema.

'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other "comedies" that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.

I have been careless, and so have been thwarted by luck and chance, those wreckers of all but the best laid plans.

The most important job you'll ever have is in the walls of your own home.

It is the crushed grape that gives out the blood-red wine: it is the suffering soul that breathes the sweetest melodies.

The Internet provides a delivery system for pathological states of mind.

There is a larger frame to the painting than the one that bounds our life's events.

If there were ever two sentences that you will not respond well to, 'Don't move. There's a snake behind your foot,' is it.

The very flowers are sacred to the poor.