Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.

Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.

Life unexamined, is not worth living.

Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.

The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.

More men have become great through practice than by nature.

The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures. Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.

My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.

Acknowledgment--being seen and heard and witnessed inside the truth about one's own life--is the only real medicine of grief.

If you have to think about relaxing, are you really relaxing?

Forgotten is forgiven.

The habit of shedding blood, or even of seeing it shed, corrupts all sentiment of humanity.

There are surprising turning points; there is the straw that breaks the camel's back, and you never know if your action could be the straw.

Jazz was my first love.

The Air Force comes in every morning and says, 'Bomb, bomb, bomb' ... And then the State Department comes in and says, 'Not now, or not there, or too much, or not at all.'

All the stars all the galaxies are in the same spot night after night after night. And Planet Nine, when we see it, will slowly move across the sky.

We don't do everything the same way we always did it. We just don't.

The trick to liking who you are is not to hate too much the person it turned out you weren't.