"Any thought which tends to inspire, to comfort, and to give peace to the mind is good."
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"Epicureanism did inspire libertine culture in isolated sects, but Epicurus himself rejected an ethics of sensory indulgence, and he would have disowned latter-day 'Epicureanism' as a fussy, expensive, unphilosophical approach to eating and drinking."
"Money makes life easier but I don't want to be rich, not at all."
"Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them?"
"At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage."
"It has not fallen to your lot to command great armies. You had to create them, organize them and inspire them."
"The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues."
"I always believe leaders are readers, so you've got to read 30 minutes a day of something that's going to inspire you."
"For winners, losing inspires them. For losers, losing defeats them."
"Texans don't bury their failures. They get inspired by them. They take their failures and turn them into rallying cries. Failure inspires Texans to become winners. But that formula is not just the formula for Texans. It is formula for all winners."
"Inspire (from the Latin inspirare) means to breathe life into another."
"I've met a lot of people and happened to inspire a lot of people who I'm in conversation with about business. It's just how things are going for me and it's great, but music is always going to be number one for me."
"From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live."
"Life is a predicament which precedes death."
"We were kids without fathers, so we found our fathers on wax and on the streets and in history, and in a way, that was a gift. We got to pick and choose the ancestors who would inspire the world we were going to make for ourselves."
"Good and bad - this is the story of my life."
"I live what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people."
"Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us."
"No one is so cowardly that Love could not inspire him to heroism."
"Of all the Gods, Love is the best friend of humankind, the helper and healer of all ills that stand in the way of human happiness."