But people in a small town tend to do a lot of talking, even when they don’t know what they’re talking about.
To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.
Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved.
The most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery. To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself, you must not be afraid to be alone. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.
The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.
A home cook who relies too much on a recipe is sort of like a pilot who reads the plane's instruction manual while flying.
Laugh every day as much as you can.
Self-destruction would be a brief, almost autoerotic free-fall into a great velvet darkness