When the Idea, of any Pleasure strikes your Imagination... let that time be employed in making a just Computation between, the duration of the Pleasure, and that of the Repentance sure to follow it.

It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking.

Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.

It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it.

Consider first the nature of the business in hand; then examine thy own nature, whether thou hast strength to undertake it.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

The wise realize that some things are within their control, and most things are not. They learn early on to distinguish between what they can and can't regulate.