Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.

A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season.

Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.

Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental structures, and oblivion rests on the most illustrious names.

All is as thinking makes it so

The main thing we were made for is to work with others.

My city and state are Rome. But as a human being? The world. So for me, "good" can only mean what's good for both communities.