For a thinking man is where Wisdom is at home.

Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness.

Turn yourself not away from three best things: Good Thought, Good Word, and Good Deed.

With an open mind, seek and listen to all the highest ideals. Consider the most enlightened thoughts. Then choose your path, person by person, each for oneself.

One good deed is worth a thousand prayers.

Happiness comes to them who bring happiness to others.

A reflective, contented mind is the best possession.

If one would have a friend, then must one also be willing to wage war for him: and in order to wage war, one must be capable of being an enemy.

One need not scale the heights of the heavens, nor travel along the highways of the world to find Ahura Mazda. With purity of mind and holiness of heart one can find Him in one's own heart.

Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect.

War and courage have done more great things than charity. Not your sympathy, but your bravery has saved the unfotunate.

Of course there is no veneer, the process is one of growth, and primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

And when I came in with tears in my eyes, you always knew whether I needed you to hold me or just let me be. I don't know how you knew, but you did, and you made it easier for me.

Something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.

I’m always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy with the images they got.

It is the responsibility of the citizens to support their government. It is not the responsibility of the government to support its citizens.

Pertini has interpreted as their best the worst about Italians.

How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!

It’s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.

Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.

It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about.