What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

I wish I was a teenager in the 1970s.

If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?

No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

When I was a kid, nobody told me I was good-looking. I wish they had. I would've had a better time.