If death causes you no pain when you're dead, it is foolish to allow the fear of it to cause you pain now.

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.

I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the book to which I came back every evening.

I don't know if I have any real aspirations to be an actor. It was just something I was asked to do in sort of a friend way. And I thought, Why not?

Never use tricky or irrelevant headlines… People read too fast to figure out what you are trying to say.

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.

I never had a piece of toast particularly long and wide, But fell upon the sanded floor, And always on the buttered side.

I didn't know how...deep love ran, how it was in your blood, not your heart, and how that same blood pumped through your veins your whole life.

But I found tai chi when I was studying with Leung Shum, who teaches Eagle Claw and Wu Hao.

Once upon a time I would’ve leaped at the rare opportunity of curling up with Mom on the couch. But now it sort of felt like too little too late. I had someone else waiting for me.

What greater work is there than training the mind and forming the habits of the young?

I am sure that all complaints regarding me were initiated from Ukraine.