It is not society's fault that most men seem to miss their vocation. Most men have no vocation.

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.

Peace is not only the goal, it is the game itself.

This is not new: people do business with people they like, know and trust. Taking that axiom in to account, would YOU trust YOU?

Why doesn’t anyone go to the moon anymore? What happened to our optimism?

I love you more than life itself.” There was no way she could doubt his words, because he was opening his eyes to her and letting her glimpse his soul.

In every heart there should be one grief that is like a well in the desert.

If you fail to plan, you pretty much plan to fail.

The little bit of truth contained in many a lie is what makes them so terrible.

Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art.

Edward was always focused, watching and also listening to what others couldn't see.

In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.