Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.

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.

They should install elevators in this place. What if they turned a handicapped person into a vampire? Talk about your discrimination lawsuit waiting to happen.

Denial is an essential part of my existence. Without it, I am nothing.

Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.

Any claims on the truth in my pictures are only to be answered in the sense that a particular event did in fact happen and did take place in the here and now.

Most people tiptoe their way through life, hoping they make it safely to death.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.

Let us treat them [children], therefore, with all the kindness which we would wish to help to develop in them.

We were meant to influence the world, not have the world influence us.

The Republic doesn't exist out here. We must survive on our own.

There is no greater thing two friends can do for each other than simply to be each other's friends.