Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?

Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness.

The things you really need are few and easy to come by; but the things you can imagine you need are infinite, and you will never be satisfied.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

Being happy is knowing how to be content with little

Live your life without attracting attention.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

Streets flooded. Please advise.

What happened when we died? How were we to know that death wasn't as profound an adventure as life was?

We are now at risk of having a zombie democracy roaming around a one-party state.

It's exciting to see if you can create something that sounds, at least to your own ears, exciting.

I took up knitting from time to time as a relaxation, but I always put it down again before going out to buy a rocking chair.

I am seriously troubled by the proposed rapid consolidation in the telecommunications marketplace.

Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention.

Some people say you have to be a Christian to be saved. I had to stop being Christian to be saved.

It's bad enough when married people bore one another, but it's much worse when only one of them bores the other.

Theres something about most phobias where theres a tiny, tiny corner where you think this really actually could happen.