If there is neither excessive wealth nor immoderate poverty in a nation, then justice may be said to prevail.

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.

Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Who is happy? This is a person, who has a healthy body, is dowered with peace of mind and cultivates his talents.

The past is certain, the future obscure.

All things are from water and all things are resolved into water.

We live not, in reality, on the summit of a solid earth but at the bottom of an ocean of air

Time is the wisest of all things that are; for it brings everything to light.

Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.

Many words are not proof of the wise man, because the sage only talk when it's needed, and the words are measured and corresponding with the need.

The tension between what is, and what we dream of, is important. Not to discount what we have, but to hold onto that middle ground, because it's in there that the magic happens.

Children of God, Children of the light.

You've to stand up for yourself. If you don't, no one else will.

Being born and raised as a Californian, I somewhat ignorantly had taken for granted the diversity and liberal mindset that shaped my childhood and adult life.

I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation.

Darkness does not age; nothing is always nothing

As we say in the sewer, if you're not prepared to go all the way, don't put your boots on in the first place.

The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

People are generally opposed to things they know nothing about.

Believe it and achieve it.