The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

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.

The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead.

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.

Education is only second to nature.

On Being Old. It's not nice but take comfort that you won't stay that way for ever.

The critical question is not whether you'll have luck, but what you do with the luck that you get.

When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.

Stop the bullsh*t. Stop drawing lines in the sand like previous generations [have done].

To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.

I'm either mentally ill or Jewish. I can't sometimes tell the difference.

If it shakes you in the right places, it's Gods gift.