Sweet exists by convention, bitter by convention, color by convention; but in reality atoms and the void alone exist

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.

God is willing to walk the earth again incarnate in us.

We think we like or love some people until we see them regularly.

The only way to get what you're worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.

In football, as in politics, resilience pays off.

The Presidents Woodruff and Smith both said they were willing for such a ceremony to occur, if done in Mexico, and Pres. Woodruff promised the Lord's blessing to follow such an act.

People are too pretentious in France to like Sarkozy. But he'd be a fabulous president for America.

The two world wars boosted American power and devastated potential rivals to an extent that could not have lasted more than a few decades.

Concepts of integrity and heroism and honor are still important to the world today. Some people behave well, and some people behave badly.

Life has taught me that to fly, you must first accept the possibility of falling.

I once wrote a song so beautiful that I myself couldn't sing it. It's called Plastic Government Cheese Swan, and it's about how the world is plastic and full of government cheese swans.