Seneca

It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind.

I can’t understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

Enduring habits I hate…. Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.

In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.

She wears her beauty as the sky wears the stars, infinitely deep and forever shining.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

If you believe, you will. If you don’t, you won’t.

Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon – but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx –the world went around, it didn’t stop for a second. It’s sad but true. John Kennedy, right?

We may appear to be mean, but we’re really only frightened.

Most of the sickness in the world is caused by eating too much.

Eighty percent of all questions are statements in disguise.

Those are my principles. If you don’t like them I have others.

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

Love cannot be defined, reduced, or ignored. It exists just the same for me, for you, for everyone.