If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.
Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.
For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.
It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.
That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.
All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.
Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
That which costs little is less valued.
What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
The day of individual happiness has passed
The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
Thought is free.
The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?