Oaths are the fossils of piety.

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.

It takes strength to forgive and love unconditionally.

Electricity should not be banned, it just needs much better government regulation and understanding by the medical profession of the full range of toxicity that it presents to the human.

Even the simplest wicker basket can become priceless when it is loved and cared for through the generations of a family.

The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith.

The unfortunate thing about money is that it always raises suspicion even amongst brothers.

My favorite sport is female and my favorite food is beer.

Sometimes you have to be alone to think, and sometimes the best place for thinking isn't home.

When you're out of will power you call on stubbornness, that's the trick.

We're social animals. We've got to get along together. It's in our nature. We're hardwired that way.

It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.