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

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.

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.

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

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.

It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.

In searching for himself, he had come to understand that he was defined by selflessness

What fascinates me about writing is wrestling thought into reality and creating a new world that is forever.

The world can only be redeemed through action--movement--motion. Uncoerced, unbribed, and unbought, humanity will move toward the light.

My grandmothers apartment had significance for me, even as a child, and I was fascinated by that world that was disappearing.

The source of genius is imagination alone.

Whether you believe you can or not, you're right.

Confronting climate change is, in the long run, one of the greatest challenges that we face, and you can see this duty or responsibility laid down in scriptures, clearly.

Being on TV is like being alive, only more so.

I have no worries myself, nor do I exude or possess within my living stratus any reason why someone should worry [on] my behalf.