Hope is the most universal of human possessions.

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.

Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Who is happy? This is a person, who has a healthy body, is dowered with peace of mind and cultivates his talents.

The past is certain, the future obscure.

All things are from water and all things are resolved into water.

We live not, in reality, on the summit of a solid earth but at the bottom of an ocean of air

If there is neither excessive wealth nor immoderate poverty in a nation, then justice may be said to prevail.

Time is the wisest of all things that are; for it brings everything to light.

Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.

Don't over-focus on the negatives and under-focus the positives in your life.

Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it.

I do a public access show with puppets. Puppets called actors, TV and movie stars.

I'm not a jack of all trades; I'm a master of many. I don't feel there is anything I can't do if I want to.

I have in my own fashion learned the lesson that life is effort, unremittingly repeated.

I hope that when the world comes to an end, I can breathe a sigh of relief, because there will be so much to look forward to

Politics is history in the present tense.

I'm very good at being out of work.

The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them.

Edward helped, making faces every so often at the raw ingredients-human food was mildly repulsive to him.