Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

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.

Maybe love is thinking that every time your partner does or says something mundane that you want to start a Mexican wave from here to Uzbekistan in utter delight.

Life is a circle, like it or not that's the law.

The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.

I have to believe that literature can effect change; otherwise, I would have no purpose in my life and would have wasted four years on Ilustrado.

I didn't learn for years that you generally find your Self after you quit looking for it.

I am here to help you to be total wherever you are; in whatsoever state you are - live that state totally. It is only in living a thing totally that one transcends it.

... and you can only have 2 or 3 things everyday, because everything else will just come at you; you know fires in a day.

When I was a little boy, I rode, but I didn't own horses.

Fifteen percent of Russia badly polluted.

The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice; but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue.