Before you contradict an old man my fair friend you should endeavour to understand him.

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.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

A mind might ponder its thought for ages, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach it in a day.

That’s writing for you: when you make space for passion, it doesn’t turn up.

Being an example to others is a requirement of following Jesus, even though none of us will ever be a perfect example.

The false hope I filled myself with is fleeing and I'm beginning to feel scared again.

Circumstances in life often take us places that we never intended to go. We visit some places of beauty, others of pain and desolation.

In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic.

Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.

...telephone operators now routinely use '80s-babble, chirping, "Have a nice day," the moral equivalent of the smile button.

Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying!