Hope is a waking dream.

Each human being is bred with a unique set of potentials that yearn to be fulfilled as surely as the acorn yearns to become the oak within it.

To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.

The soul never thinks without a picture.

Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do.