If artists and poets are unhappy it is after all because happiness does not interest them.

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.

Any moment now, I thought, he was going to wake up. Any moment.

[F]or grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.

War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.

I have little weird things that aren't really specific but are just kind of odd. I write my 5's backwards, and I don't know if anyone would even care, at all.

In the time of gods and monsters, what is the worth of a man?

Some lose yet gain, others gain and yet lose

I don't like to plan anything ever because it never seems to work. I'm just really...let's just get this film out and see how this one does.

In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses.

In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre.

Thou weedy elf-skinned canker-blossom!