Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.

He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.

It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as a sign of little worth

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness.

The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion.

In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else.

What do you do there, moon, in the sky? Tell me what you do, silent moon. When evening comes you rise and go contemplating wastelands; then you set.

Keep Smiling, Rock On!

I grew up in a house of no love or emotion - it kind of sticks with you.

I'd like to decide who comes here. I'd like to be the admissions director of New York.

I didn't want to be cut, but it made me a better person and a better player.

The nice thing about New York is that you're finally able to wear those winter clothes that have been sitting in your closet in mothballs

We cannot end hunger unless we end poverty.

All around the world, people believe that there is a great conflict between good and evil. Well, it's true that there's a conflict, but it only exists in the human mind.

O Lord! he concluded, forgive all these trespasses. Lead me not into Penn Station.

I knew I was going to make one. I wanted to make two, but the first one rattled in and rattled right out.

They best can judge a poet's worth, Who oft themselves have known The pangs of a poetic birth By labours of their own.