A world is a circumscribed portion of sky... it is a piece cut off from the infinite.

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.

It's not that life is good or bad. Life just is. It's how you handle the shitty situations that will determine whether it's good or bad.

What we believe in our heart, we must declare with our mouth.

Nixon wanted view and advice brought to him through intermediaries. He wanted information filtered as it came to him – and he wanted his filters to filter his will back to those whom he must direct.

Every soldier is an enemy.

Seville is a tower full of fine archers.... Under the arch of the sky, across the clear plain, she shoots the constant arrow of her river.

It is always safe to assume, not that the old way is wrong, but that there may be a better way.

Reasons never matter, once Death comes cold and bold and takes the living by the hand. You count up your dead, every one.

How could they let me grow up like that—happy and pink and stupid?

Whole prayer is nothing but love.

I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.