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

Bad men are full of repentance.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation.

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.

All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.

Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.

I don’t care if they respect me so long as they fear me.

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you’re doing so.

There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.

I’m much more of a risk taker. I’m more fearless now than when I was 18. I was much more self-aware and I cared too much about what people thought of me and now I really don’t. I probably should.

I could care less about being an action actor like Stallone or Schwarzenegger.

I can’t think of anyone I’ve mistreated. I’ve always thought that I am my brother’s keeper. And I believe there’s a ‘great spirit’ that takes care of all of us.

What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a moment.