Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.

Quotes to Explore
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept.
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I really connect to strong feminist writers that make their ideas accessible for the rest of the world.
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My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.
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Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
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If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
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I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.
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Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
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When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.
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In India, you see the way they embrace color in the culture - it's very celebratory of the existence of color. There's no rule of what color belongs together or doesn't belong together. They're not precious about it. It's very full-on.
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If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice.
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I just thought acting would be something to help out with my student loans, but my first year as an actress, I made more money than my parents. That's when I realized it could turn into a career. After that, I put everything I had into it.
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My ability to not be afraid to ask tough questions or to confront, that matters.
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Don't look back!
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She has been condemned to death by hanging. A man may escape this death by becoming the hangman, a woman by marrying the hangman. But at the present time there is no hangman; thus there is no escape. There is only a death, indefinitely postponed. This is not fantasy, it is history.
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Keep it simple in the kitchen. If you use quality ingredients, you don't need anything fancy to make food delicious: just a knife, a cutting board, and some good nonstick cookware, and you're set.
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Everyone gets their rough day. No one gets a free ride. Today so far, I had a good day. I got a dial tone.
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I got to know Coach Wooden at the end of his life.
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Unlike my mother, who was unashamedly delighted when I decided to become an actor, I always feel that my father, had he lived longer, might have been a touch disapproving of some of my career - I think he might have tutted a bit at 'Men Behaving Badly.'
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No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.