To a longer and worse life, a shorter and better is by all means to be preferred.

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.

Don't be concerned with other people's impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived - and dying I will tend to later.

From this instant on, vow to stop disappointing yourself. Separate yourself from the mob. Decide to be extraordinary and do what you need to do -- now.

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

If someone speaks badly of you, do not defend yourself against the accusations, but reply; "you obviously don't know about my other vices, otherwise you would have mentioned these as well

He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.

The song you write may be beautiful, the research you conceive may be beautiful, but you are the real beauty in life.

The past is behind us, " said Boudicca, "but the difficulty there is we keep looking over our shoulders.

...it has always been my temperament to prefer a tiny amount of the excellent to a plenitude of the mediocre...

If all you do it "live with it"...then that's not much of a life.

Confidence is something you're born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.

We saw a fair bit of video on them towards the back end of the week and we were licking our lips.

My career was about to change radically, in turning 50 I had hit the age where my Dad made a big career and his life started to unravel.

How could Hillary clinton not come off as human! I mean, even Nurse Ratched was human. I don't think people are interested in 30 years of the past, and I don't get this notion of change-maker.

Faith has no value of its own, it has value only as it connects us with Him. It is a trick of Satan to get us occupied with examining our faith instead of resting in the Faithful One.