The wise man’s home is the universe.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.

Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.

Life unexamined, is not worth living.

Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.

The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.

More men have become great through practice than by nature.

The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures. Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.

My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.

And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him

If you’d saved the girl, you’d be a hero. Next time.

Vegans have a way of circling every conversation back to food, much like born-again Christians have a way of returning every conversation to the scripture.

There is no romance without finance.

I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do.

Everything I've ever done in my whole career, people might not know, I've never written anything down on paper.

Don't sleep through your dreams.

No nation ever rises higher than its women.

The fundamental grey which differentiates the masters, expresses them and is the soul of all colour.

Art is never defect-free. Things that are remarkable never meet spec, because that would make them standardized, not worth talking about.