“Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.”

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.

Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

Envy creates the beginning of strife.

More men have become great through practice than by nature.

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

The person who can laugh with life has developed deep roots with confidence and faith-faith in oneself, in people and in the world, as contrasted to negative ideas with distrust and discouragement.

Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.

Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

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

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.

Girls, we have to go 10 times harder than guys. We are still expected to give you the bars, give you the look, give you the routine. This is me – I wanna be a rapper, this is it.

Not everything happens when you expect it; it is what it is. The people who ride with you, ride with you.

I never expect a perfect work from an imperfect man.

I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That’s their mistake, not my failing.

Politicians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable

You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.

When it comes to standards, as a leader, it’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate. When setting expectations, no matter what has been said or written, if substandard performance is accepted and no one is held accountable.

Family is everything. Family comes first. It’s not what I expected it to be, but nothing ever is.