Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.

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.

I welcome all butterflies into my heart because that feeling is a constant reminder of how alive and full of love I truly am.

Time has no sense but it makes all the sense

Set thine house in order.

I'm extremely proud of my daughter. She's done amazing work. She's worked on herself, which I think is important.

I could never muster the courage to speak to girls in my college in Pune. Most of them were Parsis and spoke English. I came from a village and could barely converse in English.

People believe a man is in distress because his loved one dies in one day. But his real pain is less futile: it is that he finds out that sadness too does not last. Even pain has no meaning.

If you believe in evolution and naturalism then you have a reason not to think your faculties are reliable.

I, myself, have had many failures and I've learned that if you are not failing a lot, you are probably not being as creative as you could be -you aren't stretching your imagination.

I've signed thousands of documents, but never read them.

In America, you can always find a party. In Soviet Russia, The Party can always find you!