"How can I set free anyone who doesn't have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom? I think it's a lie – people claim they want to be free – everybody insists that freedom is what they want the most, the most sacred and precious thing a man can possess. But that's bullshit! People are terrified to be set free – they hold on to their chains. They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It's their security…How can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don't really want to be free?"

"It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice."

"Actually I don't remember being born, It must have happened during one of my black outs."

"Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness."

"Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception."

"Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way."

"Wisdom outweighs any wealth."

"Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness."

"Wise thinkers prevail everywhere."

"Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven."

"A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick."

"A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife."

"If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink."

"Much wisdom often goes with brevity of speech."

"There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick."

"There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad."

"When trouble ends even troubles please."

"Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away"

"Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him."

"Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all."

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics"

"Be sincere, be brief; be seated."

"We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction."

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."