“Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.”

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

Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.

Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?

Nothing beautiful without struggle.

Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

All learning has an emotional base.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces.

Knowledge is the food of the soul.

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

An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.

Those who don’t know must learn from those who do.

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.

Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men’s thinking about themselves.

Together we can change the lives of many children.

Before you change your thinking, you have to change what goes into your mind.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Don’t judge me by my past. I don’t live there anymore.