It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.

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.

The purest definition of “religious” is: relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality.

The weight of your words is more important than the volume of your voice!

When we leave this life, we only get to take two things: the love we received and the lessons we learned.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Personally, I love Toronto.

There is one great and universal wish of mankind expressed in all religions, in all art and philosophy, and in all human life: the wish to pass beyond himself as he now is.

I've spent my whole working life standing up for workers. Didn't matter if it was the two trapped miners at Beaconsfield or professional netballers or indeed factory workers or construction workers.

With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.

Carry always your earplugs with you in case of emergency, like meeting with a politician!

We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.