I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

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.

Some people ate less food less often when they each had a home than they now do as hobos.

Well, little old Noisyville-on-the Subway is good enough for me.

Believing in God and turning into Monsters.

Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out.

I have learned from my own experience that if you work hard you will succeed.

Having a gun in your hand is very empowering.

Every moment contains a spark of eternity.

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome.

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

I don't see myself as some television star, I see myself as a girl from Albany.