No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.

The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is that we may listen the more and talk the less.

Man conquers the world by conquering himself.

All things are parts of one single system, which is called nature; the individual life is good when it is in harmony with nature.

Steel your sensibilities, so that life shall hurt you as little as possible.

Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue

No matter whether you claim a slave by purchase or capture, the title is bad. They who claim to own their fellow-men, look down into the pit and forget the justice that should rule the world.

Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.

A bad feeling is a commotion of the mind repugnant to reason, and against nature.

Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.

That which exercises reason is more excellent than that which does not exercise reason; there is nothing more excellent than the universe, therefore the universe exercises reason.

It is better to be divided by truth than united in error.

Rainbows would never spring from a crock full of credit cards or computer printouts.

Screw you, I don't hate you I just don't find any good reason to like you.

Remembering where and why you fell and learning the lessons well is a good starting point to start all over again with a broaden insight and a renewed fortitude and wit to dare again for victory!

It's hard to see how the Copyright Office can rise to the many challenges of the 21st-century work that you do without dramatically more independence and dramatically more flexibility.

Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous learning is more fundamental.

What the Paris agreement now does is say to China and India and other countries that are potentially polluting, come on board. Let's work together so you guys do the same thing.

As a reader you have a task to do, you have something to do. You bring your experience to it. It's not all inherit in the poem.

People have no clue that they’re in prison, they don’t know that there is an ego, they don’t know the distinction.

Children recognize me from Free Willy (1993), and their parents recognize me from Reservoir Dogs (1992). The kids are, like, "There's Glen!" and the parents are, like, "Don't go near that guy!"