We are aware that globalization doesn't mean global friendship but global competition and, therefore, conflict. That doesn't mean we will all destroy each other, but it is no happy global village, either.

The true Resurrection is based not on the mythical lie of the guilty victim who deserves to die, but on the rectification of that lie, which comes from the true God and which reopens channels of communication mankind itself had closed through self-imprisonment in its own violent cultures.

When we judge, we are always in a psychic space which is circular.

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

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life.

I wanted to be famous. It's embarrassing to admit, but I came out to L.A. thinking it would happen in no time. I thought, 'Once they see me, they'll be so glad I came.' I always had a ridiculous amount of self-confidence about what was going to happen to me.

E! has just become a sad, sad place to live. They don't know what they're doing; they have no ideas... everything they do just is a failure.

Everywhere I go, people ask me about Jennifer Aniston's wedding. Everywhere I go. I always say to her, I'm like, 'Being friends with you is a burden. You think it's hard to be friends with me?'

That's my biggest struggle, is maintaining a personal romantic relationship. It takes a lot of effort.

I have always maintained a strong opposition to marriage because I would have to be in serious denial to pretend I wasn't born with a personality for divorce. Whatever the opposite of amicable is, that's how my breakups tend to play out.

Anyone who's married to Mariah Carey - I'm pretty sure - doesn't have a great sense of humor. I mean, let's be honest: she's ridiculous. What is her game plan?

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

What worries you, masters you.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.

Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.

The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

All wealth is the product of labor.

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

Christopher Walken and Nathalie Baye played my parents so well that I really thought I was in my living room at Christmas. My mother couldn't have been played more correctly.

I partied in every capital in Europe, basked on all the famous beaches, and good-timed it in South America, the South Seas, the Orient, and the more palatable portions of Africa.

I think I was so successful, not because I was brilliant, but because I was so young. I had no fear of consequences.

You have to be smarter and a wiser businessperson and consumer. You have to learn to protect yourself through education.