Plato feels that ethical abstinences and austerities are essential preconditions for the cleansing and opening of the eye of the soul.

Art's primary social function is to define the communal self, which includes redefining it when the community is changing.

Many modern scholars have found the asceticism expressed in Plato unacceptable; it does not sound like the advice of a reasonable man in the Cartesian tradition.

To Plato the desire for excessive and special foods ... is a hindrance to the soul's attainment of intelligence.

Plato rarely if ever states anything about himself clearly.

When you do the common things in an uncommon way, you'll command the attention of the world.

Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.

If we live in a state of constant fear, can we remain human?

No one likes documentaries.

To all those who won't listen to my music because I don't smoke ganga, I say the hell with those people

The real secret of happiness is simply this: to be willing to live and let live, and to know very clearly in one's own mind that the unpardonable sin is to be an unpleasant person.

Marcia was incredibly organized, obsessively neat ... I mean she folded her underwear like origami.

I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself

Because I hate fake people and I always think I'm never fake.

I'm like a mama's boy and stuff.