Living virtuously is equal to living in accordance with one's experience of the actual course of nature

Wise people are in want of nothing, and yet need many things. On the other hand, nothing is needed by fools, for they do not understand how to use anything, but are in want of everything.

There could be no justice, unless there were also injustice; no courage, unless there were cowardice; no truth, unless there were falsehood.

Thought is the fountain of speech.

If I had followed the multitude, I should not have studied philosophy.

The universe itself is God and the universal outpouring of its soul.

I had an abnormal heart, the kind that stretched like a rubber-band and weakened with every tug I allowed someone to have

If God had wanted me otherwise He would have created me otherwise.

As soon as the recovery is well under way, we need to set up a long-term plan to reduce the structural deficit and make sure we are not leaving a mountain of debt for the next generation.

Does anybody in this room really believe that [I win]? Give me a break.

I've been an amateur photographer since my teens.

I have a lot of stamina and I have a lot of resilience.

Come and take your seat, Lady Dorina.

It is what you choose not to observe in your life that controls your life.

I am not an autobiographical writer. I'll take little elements here and there from things that I've actually experienced-counting eyelashes on a sleeping beauty, for example.

My mother was an amateur singer, my father was an amateur drunk.