I’ve never liked rehearsing too much.

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

The greater the Difficulty the more Glory in surmounting it, and the loss of false Joys secures to us a much better Possession of real ones.

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.

We cannot live pleasantly without living wisely and nobly and righteously.

Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can and does not want to.
If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent.
If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked.
If, as they say, God can abolish evil, and God really wants to do it, why is there evil in the world?

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.

If you would enjoy real freedom, you must be the slave of Philosophy.

The wise man neither rejects life nor fears death… just as he does not necessarily choose the largest amount of food, but, rather, the pleasantest food, so he prefers not the longest time, but the most pleasant.

Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act.

I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)

The acquisition of riches has been for many men, not an end, but a change, of troubles.

What will happen to me if that which this desire seeks is achieved, and what if it is not?

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men in their various relations with each other, in whatever circumstances they may be, that they will neither injure nor be injured.

I would love to be a role model.

One person of integrity can make a difference.

If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that’s exactly what I did.

Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

Gangsta to us didn’t have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It’s just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you’re not going to let nothing stop you.

You got to want to evolve. It’s something you can practice on but it just came to me. I wasn’t really sitting there like, ‘What can I do to get better?’ It just came to me, talking to my people and my crew. They just tell me what my strongest and weakest points are at

A writer should be as objective as a chemist; he should lay aside his personal desires and prejudices and study his subject from every angle.

You don’t get what you want in life, You get who you are.

The ego is a monkey catapulting through the jungle: totally fascinated by the realm of the senses, it swings from one desire to the next, one conflict to the next, one self-centered idea to the next.

I dress to be as comfortable as I possibly can. Most of my clothing is either black, grey, or dark blue, and I don’t really wear a lot of colors. But I do like jackets. I have a little bit of an obsession with them.

A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest… a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal
desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

I really wanted to do my own perfume because I mix my own oils, so it just made sense.