I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?

Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness.

The things you really need are few and easy to come by; but the things you can imagine you need are infinite, and you will never be satisfied.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

Being happy is knowing how to be content with little

Live your life without attracting attention.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

Always ask yourself: "What will happen if I say nothing?

Every new computer program is basically doing some task that a person used to do. But the computer usually does it faster, more accurately, for less money, and without any health insurance costs.

If you start the day reading the obituaries, you live your day a little differently.

If chocolate is a foretaste of heaven, what does it mean that chocolate is freely available to all?

Democracy actually requires that the whole public be able to see common problems and address them and step outside of their own sort of narrow self-interest to do so.

I know your lives are busy. I know that you have much to do. But I make you a promise that if you will go to the house of the Lord, you will be blessed; life will be better for you.

What poetry can, must, and will always do for us: it complicates us, it doesn’t ‘soothe.’

It is the responsibility of the sender to make sure the receiver understands the message.

A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.

You could go to Estonia and there's probably an episode of 'Seinfeld' playing there. Television is a very powerful thing.