The term "incorporeal" is properly applied only to the void, which cannot act or be acted on. Since the soul can act and be acted upon, it is corporeal.

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.

You are the only one who can.

Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.

I was a very polite schoolgirl who did her work very well and hid under tables. I'd hate to think I haven't changed at all.

People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.

As soon as you publish a book and the reader reads it, they're making an extension of your brain with their brain.

If someone offered me a hundred million dollars to make a movie? I would first remind him that there are 850 million people in the world who don't have enough to eat.

My mama told me I was already in a hurry as a child. I even had measles and chicken pox at the same time

Envy, slothful vice, Never makes its way in lofty characters, But, like the skulking viper, creeps and crawls Close to the ground.

The Jews have never been ashamed of being Jews, whereas homosexuals have been stupid enough to be ashamed of their homosexuality.

It is becoming more widely acknowledged that it is better to have a good constitution than not having a perfect one.