Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

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.

So does he live, seeking, finding, joying and suffering.

Every bit of pain can be a blessing if we choose to listen to its message.

Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow.

I never talk about being leaders and all the rest of it. I can only remember one or two occasions in my life when I actually issued orders, and I felt thoroughly miserable after doing it.

The third stage is no thought.

There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier.

This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president.

I think generational trauma also plays a big part in the reactions to Israeli politics.

I try to eat fruit and be healthy.

Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.