The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

Obligation sends the children to bed on time, but love tucks the covers in around their necks and passes out kisses and hugs. Yesterday is about experience; tomorrow is about hope; today is about transitioning from one to the other. The happiest people on earth don't have the best of everything... they make the best of everything I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

This is...self-knowled ge-for a man to know what he knows, and what he does not know.