Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.

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.

We welcome, we welcome this good cooperation between Russia and NATO.

Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.

A good dancer changes the way dancing was thought after he left the floor.

[The monks'] credulity debased and vitiated the faculties of the mind: they corrupted the evidence of history; and superstition gradually extinguished the hostile light of philosophy and science.

In case there is any question in your mind," he said, cupping her face with his hands. "What I want, what I most desire, the loveliest sight on this dark earth, is you.

Through God, everyone sparkles.

I think that some of these plays are lost in this new horror called development, which is a place for dramaturgs to say "let me tell you what your play means," and the life gets sucked out of a play.

Sometimes when we aren't looking, the holiness comes breaking through like a rainbow.

The value of a good education has never left me.

When you're in politics sometimes you step on toes and they come back and kick you in the backside.