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

God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?

To move the world we must move ourselves.

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.

Those who are hardest to love need it the most.

No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Be as you wish to seem.

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

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.

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.

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.

She was not herself–she was not anything. She was something that is going to be–soon–soon–very soon. But as yet, she was only imminent.

I just love seeing my audience live, and I also love to see my peers perform because it inspires me to be a better performer as well.

I used to be indecisive, now I’m not so sure.

What you measure improves.” A corollary rule in the military is that “You get what you inspect, not what you expect.

A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.

When you’re in this league, you have to do something every single day. You have off days, but those off days are usually watching film.