Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

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.

Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.

Big food companies flatter us by telling us how busy we are and they simultaneously convince us that we are helpless. I am moderately busy, but not all that helpless. Neither are you.

Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.

At a very early age I knew I wanted to be an actor and then more specifically that I wanted to be on Broadway and be in musicals.

People can love their lies, tell their lies, believe their own lies until hell pays a visit.

Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death.

No time is wasted time

Most people in life, give up too early.

We didn't have packed lunches at my school. I was a lunch monitor as well - I used to take everyone's chips!

My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting.