Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

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.

People are not who they say but rather who their actions reveal them to be....Be smart about it. Don't fall for the bullshit.

... trouble of all kinds is voluble, and has plenty of words, but happiness was never written down.

Sometimes the best music is when you just put it out there.

What does it take to get you to the point where you have to kill your brother? It's biblical, it's huge. It's so personal.

In a comedy it helps enhance things that were already there.

We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well.

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

My life was an unending, unchanging midnight. It must, by necessity, always be midnight for me. So how was it possible that the sun was rising now, in the middle of my midnight?

The Welfare of Each of Us Is Dependent Fundamentally Upon the Welfare of All of Us

In almost all cases now the police are as much an enemy as the others.