Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent.

It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.

Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief - your time for joy will come, believe me.

Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.

The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely, In the flattering toils of philandery.

Then came a moment of renaissance, I looked up - you again are there, A fleeting vision, the quintessence Of all that's beautiful and rare.

Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.

I’ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that’s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust.

Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.

Knowledge is one of our direst needs. But it is insufficient on its own. If knowledge was stripped from true up-bringing, it would increase man's strength, but not his morals.

When the beer is gone, so are they -- flexing their cars on up the boulevard.

[The Surf Lodge performance] is sort of like an annual thing.

Today I am one of the senior technical cadre that makes the Internet work, and a core Linux and open-source developer.

The greatest work in all the world is the building of men and women of character. Without character there is not much that is worthwhile.

Leaders have power, but power is safe only in the hands of those who humble themselves to serve.

This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.

I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger.

To conduct great matters and never commit a fault is above the force of human nature.

Probably the most memorable even of my life is when I was born. It really made me who I am. If I die, I hope to go out the same way I came in, but I don't think my mother would be into that.