I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.

There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

If you want to be wrong then follow the masses.

I am a Citizen of the World, and my Nationality is Goodwill.

It is human nature that rules the world not governments and regimes.

When you get older, you learn certain life lessons. You apply that wisdom, and suddenly you say, 'Hey, I've got a new lease on this thing. So let's go.'

Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.

With athletes, it's never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport.

my mother insisted that I had to try things on to make sure they were becoming. Becoming what, I always asked.

I wanted to have money; I wanted to be special; I wanted people to like me; I wanted to be famous.

Musicians are in-season all the time.

To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.

The search for one's first professional job is not unlike a magical love potion: when one wants to fall in love with the next thing one sees, one generally does.

In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession.