“The first and best victory is to conquer self.”

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

There is truth in wine and children.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

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

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.

I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning.

The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.

Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.

Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.

Philosophy is the highest music.

Time is the moving image of reality.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.

I was born to be a leader. I love the fact that millions of people look up to me.

If you aim higher than you expect, you could reach higher than you dreamed.

You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

What were once vices are the fashion of the day.

I look at the world through the wrong end of a telescope.

Money has never yet made anyone rich.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.