“Stories matter. Many stories matter.”

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster.

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

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Conquer anger with non-anger. Conquer badness with goodness. Conquer meanness with generosity.

The superior man is conversant with righteousness; the mean man is conversant with gain.

An ignorant people is the blind instrument of its own destruction.

Brevity is the soul of wit.