When the Idea, of any Pleasure strikes your Imagination... let that time be employed in making a just Computation between, the duration of the Pleasure, and that of the Repentance sure to follow it.

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.

Don't be concerned with other people's impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived - and dying I will tend to later.

From this instant on, vow to stop disappointing yourself. Separate yourself from the mob. Decide to be extraordinary and do what you need to do -- now.

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

If someone speaks badly of you, do not defend yourself against the accusations, but reply; "you obviously don't know about my other vices, otherwise you would have mentioned these as well

You flourish one hushed breath at a time. Imagine all you can build word by single word.

They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.

All day I've built a lifetime and now the sun sinks to undo it.

Pantheism is only a polite form of atheism.

We've got 12-year-old boys dressing up as transvestites.

I have hope because I love you – I’ve been in love with you, Avery. Probably before I even realize that I was

To love means you also trust.

There is but one Earth, tiny and fragile, and one must get 100,000 miles away to appreciate fully one's good fortune in living on it.

Naps are nature's way of reminding you that life is nice, like a beautiful swinging hammock strung between birth and infinity.

We must also reject the false choice of liberty versus security. We can and must have both.