All fortune belongs to him who has a contented mind.

A great man does not lose his self-possession when he is afflicted the ocean is not made muddy by the falling in of its banks.

One should seek for the salutary in the unpleasant: if it is there it is after all nectar. One should seek for the deceitful in the pleasant: if it is there it is after all poison.

By associating with good and evil persons a man acquires the virtues and vices which they possess even as the wind blowing over different places takes along good and bad odors.

If a man be self-controlled truthful wise and resolute is there aught that can stay out of reach of such a man?

A wise man to accomplish his end may even carry his foe on his shoulder.

That is the curse of lying, Sister. Once you place that crown of the liar upon your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.

I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.

These days, you don't just break into comics once. You have to break in again and again after each job is finished.

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.

Even if something within me is ugly, writing is a pretty good place to play with that thing and to begin to really see it.

It's such a luxury to be able to be happy about going to work in the morning.

Talking wisely to the ignorant is throwing precious seeds to the desert sands!

Modernity widened the distance between the sensational and the relevant.

I always aspire to just be really nice to people. To be kind.

Wrestling is a team sport, and an individual sport all rolled into one.