We must consider both the ultimate end and all clear sensory evidence, to which we refer our opinions; for otherwise everything will be full of uncertainty and confusion.

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.

Be happy but when sad times come, know that God allow these time for self-realisation.

The Christmas memories you make this year will be the ones you remember in the years to come.

Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone.

Don’t say deep things to shallow people and don’t talk about shallow things with the deep people!

Life is too short. It's too precious. We have to live in this world, but we don't have to wallow in it. We don't have to fill our lives with all of this darkness.

I think even the poorest people in the great country that is the United States should be entitled to basic health care.

The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.

My lady, Deborah McNaughton is doing a documentary on me.

Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy.

What Independence Has Come to Mean to Me: The Pain of Solitude. The Pleasure of Self-Knowledge