A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.

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.

Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

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

Well, my definition of a tragedy is a clash between right and right.

How we educate the mind will change with the times; how we cultivate the heart is and will remain timeless.

California's 74-year-old Senator Barbara Boxer announced she will not run for re-election in 2016. When I saw the headline '74-Year-Old Boxer,' I assumed they were making another 'Rocky' movie.

You can do something really radical, which is turn your phone off and reclaim your private life.

Folks, Russia is perhaps the second most powerful nuclear country in the world. If you don't have dialogue, you have to be fools.

Using tax payers' money to provide liquidity to Wall Street so that the country wouldn't head into a depression was the right decision, in my judgment.

The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.

Speciesism: A failure, in attitude or practice, to accord any nonhuman being equal consideration and respect

When I was a little boy, I rode, but I didn't own horses.

I assaulted Stone Cold Steve Austin and got away with it! It was indeed a very special night for me.