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 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

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

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.

Worrying is the greatest egoism!

But remember this. When God wants to punish us, he gives us just ourselves to care for.

You are the only author of your book that matters.

I can write better than anyone who can write faster and I can write faster than anyone who can write better.

I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone has that when you're a teenager, especially, and especially in the society we live in.

Everyone wants to know what kind of music their favorite artist listens to. It feels good to. I don't try to dwell on that too much though.

The whole art of the political speech is to put 'nothing' into it. It is much more difficult than it sounds.

My job, I think, is the hardest job out of all the judges because I am the only one that is a performer.

If we do want to do that [ colonise space to survive, ], then vacuous materialism is not going to be enough for us.

There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them.