"For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools."

“Go without a coat when it's cold; find out what cold is. Go hungry; keep your existence lean. Wear away the fat, get down to the lean tissue and see what it's all about. The only time you define your character is when you go without. In times of hardship, you find out what you're made of and what you're capable of. If you're never tested, you'll never define you character.”

“Did he understand, as those interminable minutes ticked by, that being alone is not the same as being lonely? That being alone is a neutral state… something that exists only in the mind, not in the world, and, like a virus, is unable to survive without a willing host?”

“The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.”

“A man always assumes that others are as virtuous as himself”

“I maintain, then, that we should make peace, not only with the Chians, the Rhodians, the Byzantines and the Coans, but with all mankind...”

Source : Isocrates (1962). “Isocrates”, Loeb Classical Library

“Democrats don't sound united.”

Source : "House Democrats Re-Elect Nancy Pelosi As Minority Leader". Press Conference, gpbnews.org. November 30, 2016.

“It's not how big your pencil is; it's how you write your name.”

“Whole days and weeks have I spent prostrate on the ground in silent or vocal prayer.”