The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.

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.

Concentrate on the road ahead, not on the road behind!

The Senator from Massachusetts has given us ample grounds to doubt the judgment and the attitude he brings to bear on vital issues of national security.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

It is our duty to make a leap into the future, and I believe that we will make it.

A revolution simply means great change, significant change, and that's how I'm defining it - great change for the better, brought about through non-violent means.

One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.

The corporate killer downsizing is directly responsive to what the mutual funds have wanted.

In fiction there can be no appeal to any authority outside the book itself. . . . the thing has to look true, and that is all. It is not made to look true by simple statement.

The project you are most resisting carries your greatest growth.

Whatever happens, just keep smiling and lose yourself in Love.