The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.

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.

Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night.

Without duty life is soft and bone less.

He's sharp, he can score and he doesn't worry about missing.

Parts win prizes, not actors.

Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.

How about this John Kerry controversy? So he's out there in California, tells some kind of joke and it backfires. He's saying he botched the joke. ... This guy can lose elections he's not even in.

The first thing dictators do is finish free press, to establish censorship. There is no doubt that a free press is the first enemy of dictatorship.

When we practice mindfulness, our nonphysical side merges with the nonphysical side of that which we are experiencing.

You know what's sad about this? Not the gambling, but the best way to reach college athletes is the Cartoon Network.

All I ever wanted, all I ever needed was a father.