Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

Always desire to learn something useful

Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.

There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

Health is hearty, health is harmony, health is happiness.

Alligators have beautiful undulating skin, which feels dense, spongy, solid, like the best eraser.

If misery were water, he thinks as he climbs into his car and turns the key, I could just drown or let it wash me away entirely.

Friends are like sugar. When you have them, you'll feel happiness. When you have too many of them, you will suffer.

Now the day has ended, its brief excitements already an imperfect memory.

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

A man that lives on pork, fine-flour bread, rich pies and cakes, and condiments, drinks tea and coffee, and uses tobacco, might as well try to fly as to be chaste in thought.

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.

I'm privileged that I'm an artist.

I think many monks hesitate to change things.