Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.

Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food

But to us, probability is the very guide of life.

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.

Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute to the good of others.

As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow.

Happiness does not consist in self-love.

It is not at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should contain many truths as yet undiscovered.

A human being is a garden of love. Only you have to know how much water is needed to grow them.

I feel like a three-dimensional girl in a two-dimensional world.

Get punctual, bring energy and creativity to your work, and stay with a project until it's completed (and then double-check the results). These habits will make you indispensable.

I've realized that I have a lot of different loves, and I want to pursue writing, but I can never divorce myself from music.

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

I heard how people sounded when their dreams were shattered, when their lives were turned into a waking nightmare.

I'm a nerd. I like to sit in the library. I don't like to sweat.

Maybe we should hold the next [Olympic] games in Afghanistan and hope the Soviets pull out of that one too.

I still feel like no one knows who I am. I still feel anonymous.

There's no way a fighter should fight and put his life on the line, and a promoter makes more money than he makes.