But the universe is infinite.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?

Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness.

The things you really need are few and easy to come by; but the things you can imagine you need are infinite, and you will never be satisfied.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

Being happy is knowing how to be content with little

Live your life without attracting attention.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

I'm not singing for the future I'm not dreaming of the past I'm not talking of the fist time I never think about the last

No symphony orchestra ever played music like a two-year-old girl laughing with a puppy.

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion! What feminism does not need, it seems to me, is an endless recycling of Doris Day Fifties clichés about noble womanhood.

The law is a horrible business.

I hope that I'm able to help people when they're going through things, even if it's just to listen.

I hate with a bitter hatred the names of lentils haricots - those pretentious cheats of the appetite, those tabulated humbugs, those certified aridites calling themselves human food!

Avoid sin: ... all your deeds are faithfully recorded.

I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.

It was an arranged marriage, put together by drugs and alcohol.

It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.