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

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

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

men, in so far as they live in obedience to reason necessarily do only such things as are necessarily good for human nature, and consequently for each individual man.

Choose to deliver amazing service to your customers. You'll stand out because they don't get it anywhere else.

I spent a lot of time bowling as a kid, mostly because I grew up in bowling alleys. They were kind of my playgrounds.

I tend to write, either myself, or I sometimes write with a co-writer, my friend that lives up the road. It's usually a relatively solitary thing, but I do like coming up with ideas.

If you are not dead, you are not done.

Bucky Katt: A bad writer is just a good writer with writer's block.

In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings, beliefs, and hopes in perfect harmony.

Memories have no life. They're just pale reminders of a time that's gone-like faded photographs.

Things get better--hurt less--over time. If you let them.

Only in comedy, by the way, does an obedient white girl from the suburbs count as diversity.

I began to realize that this idea of the lighter the better and the darker the worse was really - had an impact on sororities, on friendships, on all sorts of things, and it was stunning to me.