Socrates

See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.

He is richest who is content with the least.

Like all things vast and beautiful, I want to know the depths of which you exist. It has never been enough to wade in the shallows.

People say time heals all wounds. Let me tell you, time heals nothing. You can do the wrong thing for 10 years and it doesn’t equal the right thing for one day.

Treat everyone as if they were a guest in your own house, because in reality, they are a guest in your own world.

I never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.

Zen teaches that if we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform and lighten up about it.

Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

Life is managed; it is not cured.

Learn when’s a good time to shut up.

If you keep your head in the sand, you don’t know where the kick’s coming from.

I don’t know how to drive.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

In the 80s, when I was a little girl, this whole Midtown area was a different world. These are the streets that I walked, and learned my lessons on, and heard the music, and witnessed disenfranchised people, and people who just had dreams and hopes. Every pimp, every prostitute, every drug dealer, every Broadway dreamer wishing they could be a writer, or a musician, or an actor.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.