"I decided that it was not wisdom..." - Quote by Socrates

“The perfect human being is all human beings put together, it is a collective, it is all of us together that make perfection.”

“I call that man idle who might be better employed.”

“Virtue is the nursing-mother of all human pleasures, who, in rendering them just, renders them also pure and permanent; in moderating them, keeps them in breath and appetite; in interdicting those which she herself refuses, whets our desires to those that she allows; and, like a kind and liberal mother, abundantly allows all that nature requires, even to satiety, if not to lassitude.”

“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”

“There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.”

“Real work is completed in silence and strikes a chord in the minds of only a very few.”

“Write while the heat is in you.”

“In 'Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds' I was visualizing Alice in Wonderland, an image of this female who would come and save me - a girl with kaleidoscope eyes who would be the real love of my life. Lucy turned out to be Yoko.”

“I'm inspired by my own children, how full they make my heart. They make me want to work to make the world a little bit better. And they make me want to be a better man.”