That which exercises reason is more excellent than that which does not exercise reason; there is nothing more excellent than the universe, therefore the universe exercises reason.

The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is that we may listen the more and talk the less.

Man conquers the world by conquering himself.

All things are parts of one single system, which is called nature; the individual life is good when it is in harmony with nature.

Steel your sensibilities, so that life shall hurt you as little as possible.

Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue

No matter whether you claim a slave by purchase or capture, the title is bad. They who claim to own their fellow-men, look down into the pit and forget the justice that should rule the world.

Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.

A bad feeling is a commotion of the mind repugnant to reason, and against nature.

Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.

No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.

If I am more alive because love burns and chars me, as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation, it's that he who lays me low is my salvation, and invigorates the more, the more he scars me.

Lord, open my ears to receive good counsel, allow my head to accept it and enable my person to carry it out.

The life of hero is the tale of a person overcoming personal hardship and obstacles while striving to achieve an exultant victory that voices repressed citizens’ ecstatic thoughts and dreams.

"Hello" is pseudoscience. The only smart way to read it is not to believe in it, not to trust it, or to put yourself in it and imagine what's out there that you haven't been told or seen.

If somebody had told me in the 1980s that Gerry Adams would shake hands with Ian Paisley or Peter Robinson I would have said put that man in a white suit and lock him up in a padded cell.

People think that we bought a lot of things during Nawaz Sharif's time and that I am very close to him. I have never met Nawaz Sharif, one to one, in my life.

However long I serve in public life, I'll stand on that basic liberty of the right to keep and bear arms.

The shortest route to deeper and richer worship is a clearer theology.

I would love to have played in the '60s. Now that would have been fun.

The great man is always the man of mighty effort.