Prayer among sane people has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

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.

The moment you realize your eyes hurt not because of rubbing them, but because of the tears you wasted, on him.

I Believe When People Go To Hell, They Relive Their Worst Life Experience, Over And Over Again.

Ego sends a lot of messages through the sub-conscious that do not serve our true nature, even a little bit.

Many pastors have been reduced to secular "mentors" and "coaches" in exchange for authentic disciplers of men.

When you are in love with someone you want to be near him all the time except when you are out buying things and charging them to him.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks is truth and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.

This is my one and only life and it's a great and terrible and short and endless thing and none of us come out of it alive.

Have I ever told you how scary it is that you think of heels in terms of their possible shiv potential?

I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education.

So you [Nicholas Kristof] have got this new column out, 12 steps for people who say are traumatized by the [ Donald Trump] election.