“Step out of my sunlight.”

“Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance and shimmy, and you've got an audience!”

“We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake.”

“As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. For many are the obstacles that impede knowledge, both the obscurity of the question and the shortness of human life.”

“Time is the most valuable thing that a man can spend.”

“He also said that he marvelled that among the Greeks, those who were skilful in a thing contend together; but those who have no such skill act as judges of the contest.”

“So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On rainy days, you can hear their chorus rushing past...”

“You can listen to silence, Reuven. I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own. It talks to me sometimes. I feel myself aliv...”

“Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.”

“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.”

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

“To be or not to be. That's not really a question.”