The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.

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 things that your eyes see plainly and cant forget are worse than huddled black figures left to the imagination.

Be a vessel of love and fill up with compassion and kindness. Then give it away with unconditional love.

At eighty things do not occur; they recur.

since feelings come first, who cares about the syntax of things?

When you wish for something over and over again and it doesn't come true, something else happens; not only do you give up, but you resent your wish and you resent wishing.

The only Jews who interest us are our fellow citizens... Basically and profoundly, we are with the West.

Americans are so spoiled. They think you always have to have a car, whereas I got away on my own two feet.

‎This I know... That often when I sang, and drummed, and danced, I found my eternity.

A young actor once asked me, What do you do between jobs? I said, Hobbies, hobbies, and more hobbies.

Much is written of the power of the Press, a power which may last but a day; by comparison little is heard of the power of books, which may endure for generations.