"I exhort you also to take part..." - Quote by Plato

“I should not like to say ... that any kind of knowledge is not to be learned; for all knowledge appears to be a good.”

“And the first step, as you know, is always what matters most, particularly when we are dealing with those who are young and tender. That is the time when they are taking shape and when any impression we choose to make leaves a permanent mark.”

“To begin with the wine jar in learning the potter's art.”

“Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.”

“We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them”

“Oh and I thought, as i was dressing, how interesting it would be to describe the approach of age, and the gradual coming of death. As people describe love. To note every symptom of failure: but why failure? To treat age as an experience that is different from the others; and to detect every one of the gradual stages towards death which is a tremendous experience, an not as unconscious, at least in its approaches, as death is.”

“The time comes in the life of any nation when there remains only two choices - submit or fight.”

“There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.”

“People of the world, unite and defeat the U.S. aggressors and all their running dogs!”