Be superior to pleasure.

The middle course is the best.

Learn to bear bravely changes of fortune.

Safeguard the health of both body and soul.

Be fond of hearing rather than of talking.

We should render a service to a friend to bind him closer to us, and to an enemy in order to make a friend of him.

Be swift to hear, slow to speak.

Be ready for reconciliation after quarrels.

Ah, does my princess now want what I offer?

He was kind. People bothered him. He thought we should be more concerned with the world around us and how our actions would affect things years down the road.

Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in it.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

In Boston, they love their sports celebrities. And it's great.

There is no more honorable thing any of us can do with our lives than to work to put part of the world off-limits to the activities of human beings.

Writers are liars my dear, surely you know that by now?

I think on a national level your Department of Law there in the White House would look at some of the things that we've been charged with and automatically throw them out.

Life is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy.