I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?

Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness.

The things you really need are few and easy to come by; but the things you can imagine you need are infinite, and you will never be satisfied.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

Being happy is knowing how to be content with little

Live your life without attracting attention.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

Do you think there's a difference? Between belonging with and belonging to?

The biggest threat to authors in this age is not plagiarism or poverty, it's obscurity

That's not true. I did not have sexual intercourse with Lindsay Lohan. ... A lot of people probably did, I don't know, [but I did not].

I can still see my first dog. For six years he met me at the same place after school and convoyed me home - a service he thought up himself. A boy doesn't forget that sort of association.

I never have been an anarchist, I've always had goals and always have acted out of love.

Don't use men to get what you want in life. Get it yourself.

I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.

I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.

Biotech and geo engineering have the same mindset, of engineering, of power, of control, of mastery of nature.

Currently a level of unemployment of 7% or more seems to be required to keep inflation from accelerating, a level quite unacceptable as a permanent situation.