“Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.”

“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”

“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss other people. Life's too short to worry about what other people do or don't do. Tend your own backyard, not theirs, because yours is the one you have to live in.”

“Man's greatest privilege is the discussion of virtue" Socrates in The Apology.”

“The mind is everything; what you think you become”

“Intelligent people discuss ideas. Fools discuss how people should behave.”

“For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses, and the mind is no longer in him: when he has not attained to this state, he is powerless and is unable to utter his oracles.”