Guard yourself against accusations, even if they are false; for the multitude are ignorant of the truth and look only to reputation.

Regard as your most faithful friends, not those who praise everything you say or do, but those who criticize your mistakes.

Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is immortal.

Always when you are about to say anything, first weigh it in your mind; for with many the tongue outruns the thought.

Be gracious to all men, but choose the best to be your friends.

If you be a lover of instruction, you will be well instructed.

We should not call a city happy because it attracts masses of citizens from everywhere; a fortunate city is one in which the race of the original inhabitants is best preserved.

Conduct yourself towards your parents as you would have your children conduct themselves towards you.

Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty.

But I marvel when I observe these men setting themselves up as instructors of youth who cannot see that they are applying the analogy of an art with hard and fast rules to a creative process

Oratory is good only if it has the qualities of fitness for the occasion, propriety of style, and originality of treatment, while in the case of letters there is no such need whatsoever.

The irony of taking Anti Depressants: you take them to feel good but they also make you feel bad or worse because you worry about your purse.

Nostalgia was never what it used to be.

In the past the man has been first in the future the system must be first... The first object of any good system must be that of developing first class men.

Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.

Religious insights and values are just as important today as they were 50 or 100 years ago.

I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.

I want you to be supervised, all day every day, by people who forgive your errors and believe in your destiny.

I got my eye on you boy, and when I get my eye on something, it's like search and destroy.

The cornerstone of effective leadership is self-mastery.

Societies as well as people become afraid of change as they grow older. It's human nature. The young have adventures while the old sit at home and nurture their memories.