Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

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.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances, Iran is going to get between $50 to $55 billion in oil revenue, which is unheard of in the history of the revolution.

If you're sitting in front of the TV, you can't have ice cream. But if you're running around all day, then yeah, you can.

I know some of the best Dolly Parton jokes. I made 'em up myself.

Nostradamus himself confessed that the vague manner in which he wrote his "prophecies" was so that 'they could not possibly be understood until they were interpreted after the event and by it.'

Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at.

I need people who look at adversity as a challenge and failure as a learning opportunity.

I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.

Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don't always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.

We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.