Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief

Love is the crowning grace of humanity.

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.

Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.

Man has not a greater enemy than himself.

It is better to will the good than to know the truth.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.

Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.

Maybe it’s not good trying to answer the question ‘What is my purpose in life?’ Maybe the better question is: ‘How can I make someone’s life better TODAY?

Boredom and ineffective attempts to escape tedium are the perpetual lot of humankind.

He never said "Don't tell your mama." He never had to say it. I did not know how to tell anyone what I felt, what scared me and shamed me... (109)

We are not limited by money, but rather by the poverty of our own dreams.

Stay beautiful, keep it ugly

I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.

And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.

Take the first chance that you get, because you may never get another one.

After all the statistics and calculations are formulated, the one element that breathes life into marketing is good design.

If the infinite had no me, then me would be its limit. It would not be the infinite, therefore it would not be.