“It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.”

He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about-I am looking for a human.

To become self-educated you should condemn yourself for all those things that you would criticize others.

The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.

Alexander the Great found the philosopher looking attentively at a pile of human bones. Diogenes explained,I am searching for the bones of your father but cannot distinguish them from those of a slave.

He has the most who is most content with the least.

I pissed on the man who called me a dog. why was he so surprised?

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

People who talk well but do nothing are like musical instruments; the sound is all they have to offer.

You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.

We come into the world alone and we die alone.

Behold! I’ve brought you a man.

No man is hurt but by himself.

Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.

One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.

I am a citizen of the world.

If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.

Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. We must not assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.

A grandchild is God’s reward for raising a child.

Fruit is always the miraculous, the created; it is never the result of willing, but always a growth. The fruit of the Spirit is a gift of God, and only He can produce it. They who bear it know as little about it as the tree knows of its fruit. They know only the power of Him on whom their life depends.

A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won’t.

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

Men can only think. Women have a way of understanding without thinking. Woman was created out of God’s own fancy. Man, He had to hammer into shape.