All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.

Love is the crowning grace of humanity.

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.

Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.

Man has not a greater enemy than himself.

It is better to will the good than to know the truth.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.

Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive

The best thing that life can offer is happiness. The best way to find happiness is through unconditional love.

Revenge and rational thought never sleep together.

Even as children they had been good in fact, but also in order to be seen as good. There was something disturbingly like hypocrisy about it all...

If you were an optimistic teen, then you'll be an optimist at 80. People's reactions to bad events are highly stable over a half century or more.

To understand a philosopher requires a philosopher.

When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.

You can find out how to do something and then do it or do something and then find out what you did.

Wild dogs? Or just Clayton? -Nick Sorrentino (Bitten)

If everyone is to be made responsible for everything they do, you must extend responsibility beyond the level of conscious intention.

To be honest, I think about the clubs when I write. But I should probably start thinking about stadiums, because the songs sound even better there - and bigger.