Nothing is ours except time.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?

What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Let us be brave in the face of adversity.

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Whom they have injured they also hate.

Life isn't all grand, but it isn't all miserable either.  There's both sweet and sour in every day.  So why focus on the ugly when you can gaze at what's beautiful?  Concentrate on the good.

Respectful communication under conflict or opposition is an essential and truly awe-inspiring ability.

If Mark really had managed to acquire some information about the Mogodorians, and if doing so had gotten him into some kind of trouble, then we needed to help him

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.

I start from something considered dead and arrive at a world. And when I put a title on it, it becomes even more alive.

I simply make music, and people have always been foolish enough to pay me for it. I never told them that I would have done it all for nothing.

When I was sixteen, it was simple. Poetry existed; therefore it could be written; and nobody had told me — yet — the many, many reasons why it could not be written by me.

Convictions do not imply reasons.

Well that's too bad, because this is an assassination." "No, this is an execution." "The difference would be...?" "Assassination is murder. Execution is justice.

If you're different somehow and have made yourself unique, people will find you and pay you more.