Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.

Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.

Life unexamined, is not worth living.

Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.

The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.

More men have become great through practice than by nature.

The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures. Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.

My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.

For feeling, not events, is to me the essence of history.

You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.

The moment you can visualize being free from the things that hold you back, you have indeed begun to set yourself free

I'm definitely old-school when it comes to dating. I'm not into the 'game' so much. If I like you, I'll confront you and be open about it. Then I expect you to come after me.

Congressmen are not evil people, they're mostly sort of seismographs with antennae; they're waiting - they're more worried about losing their jobs than Assistant Deans of Men in the Ivy League.

In some instances, alimony has become akin to a social-welfare program provided by working women to their ex-husbands.

There is nothing more painful than walking around with bitterness in your heart.

A devastating culmination of the elegant and the funky, a really sensational musician with enormous depth.

It's still difficult for me to watch my work.

When burned on a CD, the human genome is smaller than Microsoft Office.