Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

Those who refuse to engage in politics will be led by their inferiors

When the citizens of a society can see and hear their leaders, then that society should be seen as one.

And is it not true that in like manner a leader of the people who, getting control of a docile mob, does not withhold his hand from the shedding of tribal blood, but by the customary unjust accusations brings a citizen into court and assassinates him, blotting out a human life, and with unhallowed tongue and lips that have tasted kindred blood, banishes and slays and hints at the abolition of debts and the partition of lands.