“The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue.”

The soul never thinks without a mental picture.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

Whatever lies within our power to do lies also within our power not to do.

To lead an orchestra, you must turn your back on the crowd.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Through discipline comes freedom.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

The more you know, the more you know you don’t know.

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

It’s important I surround myself with people who make me happy.

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Pray for the strength to walk the high road, which at times may be lonely but which will lead to peace and happiness and joy supernal.

The test of happiness is gratitude.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I’m glad I lived out both roles.

I think my dad always saw how happy I was on set.