“I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.”

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.

Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Through your rags I see your vanity.

If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.

If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.

Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

Love is never cruel when its true believe me because its different with you.

Believe that you will succeed, and you will.

Believe you will be successful and you will.

We only see what we want to see; we only hear what we want to hear. Our belief system is just like a mirror that only shows us what we believe.

I’m not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work.

What I believe in my heart must make sense in my mind.

I believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education – that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society.