Chicago - a pompous Milwaukee.

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them.

He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.

I wish I'd known you when you were alive.

Book - what they make a movie out of for television.

Only the dead have no troubles.

A university is a college with a stadium seating over 40,000.

A doctor is a man licensed to make grave mistakes.

Life’s much more pleasing when you don’t have to spend all of your time thinking.

Eliminate the overwhelming cost of phantom wars and fools' errands, and humankind might begin to balance its books. After all, its only debts are to itself.

Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.

We make our own fortune and call it destiny.

I love my life, I wouldn't give it up for the world.

Standing armies shall in time be totally abolished.

You can fulfill your whole life in one hour of inner seeing.

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

This is my life. it is my one time to be me. i want to experience every good thing.

The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is in fact your consciousness.