Word is a shadow of a deed.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.

Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.

Life unexamined, is not worth living.

Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.

The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.

More men have become great through practice than by nature.

The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures. Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.

My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.

sometimes i wake upin the middleof the nightand findpoetry splatteredall over my bed.

If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.

Do not use the sharpness of your speech on your mother who taught you how to speak.

I want to be different from anyone ever.

My whole comic persona is that of a guy who explores the id: I romanticize gluttony, I romanticize laziness, and people identify with that.

The appearance of religion only on Sunday proves that it is only an appearance.

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason, and those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.

I'd been broken beyond repair.

What's dry?' 'Good question. Next question!