An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.

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

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

Find someone who has a life that you want and figure out how they got it. Read books, pick your role models wisely. Find out what they did and do it.

Authentic Christian living has its own order of priority in our lives: God first, others second, self third.

Much of history is fragmentary and essentially anachronistic – condemning the past for not being more like the present. It has no real interest in the pastness of the past.

Whatever story you're telling, it will be more interesting if, at the end you add, "and then everything burst into flames.

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.

I do not know what I thought Paris would be like, but it was not that way. It rained nearly every day.

There is no such thing as loving or believing too much.

I believe an artist is the last person in the world who can afford to be affected.

People will do anything, anything, for a really nice laugh.

Self reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.