Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.

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.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

If somebody is going to kill me or hurt me..., let's be the enemy not my friends!

The mouth is but a megaphone to the desires of the heart.

The gift we can offer others is so simple a thing as hope.

To play it safe is not to play.

The Russians don't make determinations about what our defense posture is.

Barack Obama said today that politics has become too gummed up by money and influence ... and then he had to leave to attend a fundraiser.

Polls are the corporate media's standardized tests to determine how well we have learned what it has taught us.

I would literally do anything for Richard Curtis. Anything.

Does a bibliophile ever have enough room on his shelves? The answer is obvious: get more shelves.