Aristotle

Education is the best provision for old age.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

To give away money is an easy matter, and in any man’s power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man’s power, nor an easy matter. Hence it is that such excellence is rare, praiseworthy, and noble.

What lies in our power to do, lies in our power not to do.

A friend is a second self.

One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.

I’m slipping. I’m made of departed dreams and a stubborn fog that feels nothing like a veil.

Stand up and walk out of your history.

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspision that he is trying to be funny.

Hain’t we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain’t that a big enough majority in any town?

Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.

You’re never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

Nothing’s funnier to me than laughing at myself.

They’re different kinds of challenges depending upon what phase of life I’m in.

The sense of injustice, more than the unjust condition itself, is what wears on men’s minds.

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

You be the clouds above, I’ll be the grass below, and everything in between will be where our love will grow.

We are here for experience, and experience is a preparation to know the Truth when we meet it.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

You don’t know what the hell you’re talking about! You’re crazy!