The three wishes of every man: to be healthy, to be rich by honest means, and to be beautiful.

Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it.

You can't do good if you don't feel good.

We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?

The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.

Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.

The seen is the changing, the unseen is the unchanging.

A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality.

The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge.

Maximize the power of the beliefs that strengthen you and neutralize those that weaken you.

Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom.

One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison.

In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together. With these means, man can attain perfection.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

I prefer nothing, unless it is true.

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

The souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of lights; each takes a taper - often only a spark - to guide it in the dim country of this world. But some souls, by rare fortune, are detained longer - have time to grasp a handful of tapers, which they weave into a torch. These are the torch-bearers of humanity - its poets, seers and saints, who lead and lift the race out of darkness, toward the light. They are the law-givers and saviors, the light-bringers, way-showers and truth-tellers, and without them, humanity would lose its way in the dark.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.