Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

Love is the crowning grace of humanity.

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.

Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.

Man has not a greater enemy than himself.

It is better to will the good than to know the truth.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.

For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.

Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive

WHEN YOU FOLLOW THE WAYS OF YOUR ANCESTORS YOU WILL NEVER BE LOST.LET YOUR ANCESTORS BE YOUR GUIDING LIGHT.

Of all the world's civilizations, America was the one that most needed losers.

We spend so little time in the present moment that it's anything but ordinary.

I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel; that when we have children, we know they will need us, and maybe love us, but we don't have a clue how hard it is going to be.

Scary is good. Kids like going to a movie and being really scared rather than fake scared.

The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known that we were coming.

I wish... that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it.

I grew up in a family where our mother made our clothing. We didn't have a lot of money, so we learned how to scrimp, and we learned how to invent and to create. And those are learned skills.

In the 80s, we were still living in a kind of Cold War environment.

To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.