Safeguard the health of both body and soul.

The middle course is the best.

Learn to bear bravely changes of fortune.

Be superior to pleasure.

Be fond of hearing rather than of talking.

We should render a service to a friend to bind him closer to us, and to an enemy in order to make a friend of him.

Be swift to hear, slow to speak.

Be ready for reconciliation after quarrels.

I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet supper from which it did not rise.

Trying to outsmart a compiler defeats much of the purpose of using one.

Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner.

The technical definition of the Holocene has to do with the extinction of a snail species in Sicily.

The principal villain in rising health care costs is the government. Not pharmaceutical companies, not doctors, but government.

When something goes wrong, accuse yourself first. Even the wisdom of Plato or Solomon can wobble and go blind

Intentions don't matter. It's the end result we're all judged by. Evil in the name of good is still evil. And when you dance with the devil, you seldom get to pick the tune.