Death itself is a natural occurrence, it is unavoidable, and the Stoics thought that part of philosophical practice is to get comfortable with the unavoidable, learning to face it with courage.

If a theory purports to explain everything, then it is likely not explaining much at all.

I can't speak for others, but I find the fundamental idea that a life worth living is one during which one strives every day to become a better person to be compelling.

Who we were shapes us into who we are, and who we are shapes us into who we’ll become.

I mean, scamming on guys on the Internet? I thought that was only for forty-year-old divorcees who Photoshop their pictures in an effort to appear younger and thinner.

Only an 'almost,' a 'nearly,' is possible.

For if there is any single thing that everyone hopes for most dearly, it must be this: that the youngest outlive the oldest.

British fans are exceptional, but the American fans are something else. Some of them fly 500 miles to stand in line for three hours, just to meet me, then when they do they collapse.

I believe neither the French nor the Dutch really rejected the constitutional treaty.

Disgust is so reassuring; it feels like a moral proof.

Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists.

I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.

if Saint Bruce doesn't like your poem, he chops your head off.