Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.

Quotes to Explore
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I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.
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Funny is an attitude.
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All best-of lists should close with the amazing Kelly Link.
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I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it's like I try so hard and then people still say I'm offbeat. I've learnt to accept that and take advantage of it as an actor.
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Being a woman and being gay is really a unique position in our society. I know in my experience of activism, oftentimes it makes a difference if something is women-focused. It's likely to get the attention of women much more easily.
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If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.
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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.
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The idea of 'Badlands' was creating a space with sound, which is a really difficult thing to do.
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Take life slowly and deliberately, making sure to acknowledge the people who have helped you succeed along the way.
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I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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I try and work out as much as I can. When I'm working or travelling, it's tough, but when I'm at home, that time and space is sacred. I do yoga every day.
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Israel will not divide its land. We're already too small.
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If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.
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But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam.
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Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium.
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Religious people today are courts and juries. When it comes down to it, Jesus died on the cross so that we could learn to love others like we love ourselves, not judge them or persecute them.
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I did not know many of the details relevant to the Iran and contra initiatives.
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I'll go for broke. Swim faster. It's not going to be easy - this whole thing was never going to be easy.
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We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that.
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For many people, this would have been a great final. But one of us has to go out early and we'll be doing all we can to make sure it's them.
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Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays you to be unemployed. And the bigger the entity that gives you the deal, the better.
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I can see the beauty of glass objects fully at the moment when they slip from my hand
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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.
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Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.