Man conquers the world by conquering himself.

The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is that we may listen the more and talk the less.

All things are parts of one single system, which is called nature; the individual life is good when it is in harmony with nature.

Steel your sensibilities, so that life shall hurt you as little as possible.

Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue

No matter whether you claim a slave by purchase or capture, the title is bad. They who claim to own their fellow-men, look down into the pit and forget the justice that should rule the world.

Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.

A bad feeling is a commotion of the mind repugnant to reason, and against nature.

Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.

That which exercises reason is more excellent than that which does not exercise reason; there is nothing more excellent than the universe, therefore the universe exercises reason.

No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.

You are not permitted to live and die as a non-entity because you have encountered the greatness that is associated with Christ.

When I meet a woman whose energy falters at the first barrier, she seems to fade beside my mother.

There was, for many of us, a great escape in reading about the fantastic and supernatural during wartime. Terrors more terrible than those we were living through gave us an outlet for our anxiety.

No matter if you win or lose, the most important thing in life is to enjoy what you have.

... you are not Christ's disciple, in the sense of following him, if this is not your way of life: rejected and slain daily!

It is time for us to say no, we are not going to backwards, we're going forward into a brighter future.

We already knew that kids learned computer technology more easily than adults, It is as if children were waiting all these centuries for someone to invent their native language.

You cannot explain me with "isms." They are very bad for an artist. What one must believe in is color.

My goal is to speak the truth in love. There are a lot of people speaking the truth with no love, and there are a lot of people talking about love without much truth.

I read books to read myself.