Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself.

Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.

Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.

Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.

The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for other men...

Falsity consists in the privation of knowledge, which inadequate, fragmentary, or confused ideas involve.

He who has a true idea simultaneously knows that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth of the thing perceived.

The order and connection of ideas in the same as the order and connection of things

The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body

For though men be ignorant, yet they are men

Nothing forbids man to enjoy himself, save grim and gloomy superstition

What's there to remember if not the good things?

It is not that we have too little time to do all the things we need to do, it is that we feel the need to do too many things in the time we have.

Stand-up is great because I can get everything off my chest.

I learned about what I love. Imagination, deep friendship, animals, family, the natural world, ideas and ideals ... and silliness.

Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.

Natural law is only whatever happens in your lifetime within fifty miles of you.

The upshot of Mr. Trump's economic policy positions under almost any scenario is that the U.S. economy will be more isolated and diminished.

Every time he glances at me I feel it just as surely as if he has reached out and run his finger along my soul. It is all I can do not to smile at the sheer wonder of it.

Liberty, in its last analysis, is but the sweat of the poor and the blood of the brave.

I try to put in every one of my movies some sort of message. I don't want to overdo it, because I don't want people to get annoyed by it, but it's good to have a message.