Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.

I prefer to do right and get no thanks than to do wrong and receive no punishment.

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

Furthermore, I think Carthage must be destroyed.

We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.

The hero saves us. Praise the hero! Now, who will save us from the hero?

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.

If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.

You make this world better by changing your thoughts and by becoming better.

Medieval learning was really advanced.

This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.

After I left LA... it was like waking up. And so I moved back east and stopped auditioning.

Who dat dere's gunna beat dat team? Who Dat? Who dat?

Alas! it is true: "Be polite to bores and so shall you have bores always round about you."

One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.

Love is the only shocking act left on the face of the earth.

People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.

To know the mechanics of the wave, is to know the entire secret of Nature.